GETTING_STARTED_GUIDE.md

Getting started guide

How to run assistant on your 2.12+ OpenSearch cluster

Below are the set of steps to run OpenSearch and OpenSearch dashboards with the OpenSearch assistant and the query generation functionality in the Observability Log Explorer page correctly on the cluster.

1. Setup a 2.12+ OpenSearch cluster with OpenSearch Dashboards by following the options here: https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/install-and-configure/
   1. Note: If you are using a min distribution, there are required OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards plugin to run the assistant.
      1. Required OpenSearch plugins: ML-Commons, Flow Framework, Skill, SQL, and Observability
      2. Required OpenSearch Dashboard plugins: Dashboard Assistant, Dashboard Observability
2. Enable the following settings to enable the features:
   1. To enable the chat assistant feature, set assistant.chat.enabled to true in the opensearch_dashboards.yml file, and config the root agent id by calling the api as follows:

   PUT .plugins-ml-config/_doc/os_chat
   {
     "type":"os_chat_root_agent",
     "configuration":{
       "agent_id": "your root agent id"
     }
   }
   

   2. To enable the query assistant feature, set observability.query_assist.enabled to true and observability.query_assist.ppl_agent_name to "PPL agent" in the opensearch_dashboards.yml file.
3. After OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards are running, we will setup ML Commons to connect to the LLM model
4. Run ML commons on Data node

   PUT _cluster/settings
   {
     "persistent" : {
       "plugins.ml_commons.only_run_on_ml_node":"false"
     }
   }
   

5. Add Trusted Endpoints (reference doc)

   PUT _cluster/settings
   {
     "persistent" : {
       "plugins.ml_commons.trusted_connector_endpoints_regex": [
         "^https://runtime\\.sagemaker\\..*[a-z0-9-]\\.amazonaws\\.com/.*$",
         "^https://api\\.openai\\.com/.*$",
         "^https://api\\.cohere\\.ai/.*$",
         "^https://bedrock-runtime\\.[a-z0-9-]+\\.amazonaws\\.com/.*$"
       ]
     }
   }
   

6. Call the flow framework plugin to setup the cluster for the assistant.
   1. See https://github.com/opensearch-project/flow-framework/tree/HEAD/sample-templates for sample templates. For setting up the chat assistant use the observability-chat-agent template, and for query assist feature use the query-assist-agent template.
   2. Note that other models from other services can be used instead.
   3. Note that if using the Bedrock model, IAM credentials need to be passed into the template to connect to Bedrock.

How to create your own skill

1. To create your skill, you need to work backwards to see how that skill can be achieved by accessing different OpenSearch APIs/functions. For example, a skill to find the alerts related to a question would need to use the Alerting plugin APIs to get this info.
2. To power the skill to get alerts, we must build a tool to search alerts.
3. To create a tool, you create it here. This is an example tool that search alerts.