Search and Reporting Service overview
Search and Reporting Service is a feature that provides effective search capabilities by externalizing the full-text search functionalities into an independent microservice. The independence of the Search and Reporting Service improves maintenance because, for example, you can quickly add new service functionalities regardless of the Pega Platform release cycle.
Search and Reporting Service is a multi-tenant, cloud-based service, which means that multiple Pega Platform environments (tenants) can connect to the same instance of the service. The service provides options to receive requests, and store and segregate data from multiple tenants.
Search and Reporting Service indexes data by using specific queue processors that send information directly to the service. For more information, see Managing queue processors.
Functionalities of the service
By using Search and Reporting Service instead of the embedded Elasticsearch you gain the following benefits:
- Convenient maintenance and data management by indexing data of specific
classes.
For example, you can save time by indexing specific data of the Work class instead of indexing the whole class.
- Optimal usage of resources depending on your requirements.
- Bug fixes and service upgrades regardless of the Pega Platform release cycle.
- Immediate access to the search functionality, because the service is available by default.
- Full support of row-level and partial support of property-level security of
attribute-based access control (ABAC).
Row-level security requires configuration. For more information, see Attribute-based access control.
- Partial support of role-based access control (RBAC).
Search returns objects restricted by RBAC, but they are inaccessible for users.
- Search landing page overview
The search landing page helps you control what data is available for the Search and Reporting Service (SRS). You can decide which classes of specific applications you want to index, to make them available for search. For example, you can index a class that contains data about resolved bugs to make bug resolution data searchable.
- Indexing class data
Control what data in your application is available for the Search and Reporting Service to include only the information that you require. You can index data of specific classes into the service to make them searchable for all users.
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