Thanks for being part of the OpenSearch community! Catch up on the latest developments, key events, and upcoming opportunities from the OpenSearch Project.
TL;DR:
🤖 Agent-powered search development, one-command observability, and real-time APM just landed in OpenSearch 3.6
🚀 Launch a search app in minutes with OpenSearch Launchpad – no expertise required
⚡ Uber and AWS bring native gRPC to OpenSearch, faster search at lower cost with no setup changes
🔍 Meet our new OpenSearch Ambassadors
👥 Case Study: How does Atlassian keep Jira, Confluence, and Rovo running reliably for millions of users? With OpenSearch at the core
🗓️ User groups and events coming to a city near you
OpenSearch 3.6 Release: Hundreds of contributors just shipped something worth talking about. OpenSearch 3.6 brings agent-powered tools to help you build, deploy, and deliver results faster. What you can do now:
- Build production-ready search applications in minutes, not days
- Launch a full-stack observability solution with one command
- Tune search relevance through conversation instead of code
- Monitor distributed applications in real time with Application Performance Monitoring and built-in root cause analysis
OpenSearch Launchpad: The AI assistant that takes you from 0 to a running search application in minutes. Launchpad automates architecture, models, and indexing so you can skip the setup headaches and focus on building. No expertise required. Try it yourself →
The OpenSearch Software Foundation welcomes BigData Boutique, OpenSource Connections and Resolve Technology as General Members. Read the press release →
Case Study: How does Atlassian keep Jira, Confluence, and Rovo running reliably for millions of users? With OpenSearch at the core.
See how Atlassian runs 300+ OpenSearch clusters across 13 global regions, manages more than 20 billion documents, and achieves 99.99% availability for mission-critical workloads, all on a Kubernetes-native foundation. Read the case study →
Welcome new OpenSearch Ambassadors: 10 new ambassadors have joined our ranks! This cohort spans regions, industries, and technical backgrounds, but they all share one thing in common, a track record of helping the OpenSearch community grow in practical, inclusive ways.
NetApp Instaclustr has announced that AI Search for OpenSearch is now generally available on the NetApp Instaclustr Platform. Learn more →
OpenSource Connections & AWS showcase OpenSearch 3.6 features
Curious what agentic search actually looks like in practice? OpenSearch 3.6 ships with a suite of new features designed to make search smarter and easier to build. OpenSearch Ambassador Eric Pugh is joined by and Doug Turnbull and ML engineer Mingshi Liu for a guided tour of what’s new, including automated relevancy tuning, agentic search queries, Launchpad, and the new OpenSearch Agent Server. Watch now →
OpenSearch Data Prepper maintainers announce the release of Data Prepper 2.15. This version adds the ability to ingest data from Apache Iceberg, making it easier to keep OpenSearch in sync without custom pipelines. It also extends Prometheus support with a remote-write source and the ability to send data to open source Prometheus. Get the details →
OpenSearch adds native gRPC support: led by contributors from Uber’s Search Platform team, OpenSearch now supports native gRPC endpoints using Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), giving developers a high-performance alternative to traditional REST APIs for data-intensive workloads. A great example of how community members are driving meaningful performance improvements in OpenSearch! See how they did it →
Agentic search in OpenSearch: Agentic search in OpenSearch just got a full performance report, and the numbers are hard to ignore. Across 13 retrieval benchmarks and 921 structured query evaluations, the results show that letting natural language do the heavy lifting delivers real, measurable gains, especially when the questions get complex. Dig in to the numbers →
