Amazon OpenSearch Service user interface release history

2026-06-10

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, which bring observability workflows into compatible agentic IDEs such as Claude Desktop and VS Code. Your AI agent can investigate incidents using logs, traces, metrics, and alerts stored in OpenSearch domains, collections, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and review results in interactive visualizations rendered in the same conversation. For more information, see Agentic Observability with MCP Apps.

2026-05-01

OpenSearch UI now supports cross-region data access to OpenSearch domains. You can query or build dashboards on domains hosted in different AWS Regions from a single OpenSearch UI application, for both public and VPC domains, without switching endpoints or replicating data. Cross-region data access can be combined with cross-account data access and supports IAM and AWS IAM Identity Center authentication. For more information, see Cross-region data access to OpenSearch domains.

2026-04-09

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides a unified observability experience in OpenSearch UI that brings together metrics, logs, traces, and AI agent tracing. This release adds native integration with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus so you can query Prometheus metrics with PromQL alongside logs and traces, plus application monitoring powered by RED metrics and AI agent tracing using OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions. For more information, see Metrics.

2026-03-31

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers agentic AI capabilities for log analytics in the Observability workspace of OpenSearch UI. You can use agentic chat to analyze data with natural language, trigger an investigation agent to autonomously perform root cause analysis, and use agent memory to continue conversations across feature pages and sessions. For more information, see Agentic Chat in Amazon OpenSearch Service.

2026-03-12

OpenSearch UI now supports cross-account data access to OpenSearch domains. You can configure applications in one account to access domains in different accounts using IAM or AWS IAM Identity Center authentication, for both public and VPC domains. For more information, see Cross-account data access to OpenSearch domains.

2025-12-29

OpenSearch UI now supports customer managed keys (CMK) for encrypting application metadata. This feature helps you meet regulatory and compliance requirements by giving you full control over encryption keys. This launch also increases the metadata size limit for saved objects in OpenSearch UI, enabling you to create and store complex queries, extensive visualizations, and large-scale workspaces. For more information, see Encrypting OpenSearch UI application metadata with customer managed keys.

2025-11-24

Amazon OpenSearch Service now makes Piped Processing Language (PPL) and natural language the default query experience in the Observability workspace of OpenSearch UI. The enhanced experience adds new commands for deep analysis, faceted exploration, and natural language querying so you can move from query to visualization within a single interface. For more information, see Querying logs using PPL.

2025-11-19

Amazon OpenSearch Service now provides Cluster Insights, a monitoring solution that gives comprehensive operational visibility of your clusters through a single dashboard in OpenSearch UI. It consolidates operational data across nodes, indexes, and shards and surfaces relevant metrics, affected resources, top-N query analysis, and remediation steps. Available at no additional cost for domains running OpenSearch 2.17 or later. For more information, see Unified operational monitoring with Cluster Insights.

2025-09-15

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AI-powered forecasting on time-series data indexed in OpenSearch domains. You can generate forecasts and visualizations within OpenSearch UI to anticipate trends in metrics such as infrastructure utilization, application performance, and business metrics, without requiring data science or AI expertise. Available for domains running OpenSearch 3.1 or later.

2025-08-08

OpenSearch UI now supports fine-grained access control when accessed through SAML with IAM federation. You can map identity provider user attributes and roles to OpenSearch backend roles to enforce index-level permissions and document-level security for more granular data access control. For more information, see Enabling SAML federation with AWS Identity and Access Management.

2025-04-16

OpenSearch UI now works with cross-cluster search. This makes it possible for you to use OpenSearch UI in one AWS Region to access clusters in a different Region. This is done by configuring it as a remote cluster connected with a cluster in the same Region. For more information, see Cross-cluster search.

2025-03-31

Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon OpenSearch Service.

2025-02-05

Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0) (SAML) through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) federation now works with OpenSearch UI. This makes it possible to create an identity provider-initiated Single Sign-On (SSO) experience for your end users. For more information, see Enabling SAML federation with AWS Identity and Access Management.

2024-12-01

Zero-ETL integration with Amazon CloudWatch simplifies log data analysis and visualization, reducing technical overhead and operational costs. For more information, see New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience on the AWS News Blog.

2024-12-01

Zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake makes it possible for organizations to efficiently search, analyze, and gain actionable insights from their security data. For more information, see Introducing Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Security Lake integration to simplify security analytics on the AWS News Blog.

2024-11-07

The initial public release of OpenSearch UI. For more information, see Amazon OpenSearch Service launches the next-generation OpenSearch UI on the AWS Big Data Blog.