🎙️ You know her. Now catch her on the mainstage. Bianca Lewis, inaugural Executive Director of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, joins the #OpenSearchCon North America keynote lineup, Sept 22-24 in San Jose, CA. View the lineup: https://bit.ly/4fgjXzF 🎟️ Register now + save: https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN

Agent Health enables developers to combine deterministic checks with non-deterministic evaluations, using LLM-based judges to validate changed behaviors. Join Dotan Horovits and Megha Goyal as they explore how OpenSearch helps teams move beyond traditional observability: https://bit.ly/3Tv7aAI

OpenSearch 3.8 is here with up to 4x faster vector ingestion. Beyond faster vector workloads, the latest release expands MCP support across all agent types, improves radial search throughput by up to 2x, adds lower-latency ML streaming with gRPC, and more. Blog here: https://bit.ly/4fPSwf3

🎙️ Carl Meadows, Director of Product for AWS OpenSearch Services and&board chair of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, is joining the keynote stage at #OpenSearchCon North America, Sept 22-24, in San Jose, CA. Keynote lineup: https://bit.ly/4fgjXzF 🎟️ Register now + save: https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN

The webinar I had last month is now available on demand @thenewstack.io! Rekha and I took a comprehensive journey through open source #observability with #OpenSearch and #OpenTelemetry, across #microservices and #AgenticAI 👉 thenewstack.io/webinar/open... @opensearch.org @jkriggins.bsky.social

Everything you need to start building is already here. Explore the demo, follow the examples, and create your own OpenSearch Agent Skill. The only thing missing is your idea and creativity. Shape the future of agentic workflows with OpenSearch: https://bit.ly/443K3iM

Five years of OpenSearch fun! Thank you to everyone who joined the birthday month and helped make this milestone memorable. The celebration may be over, but the OpenSearch community keeps building, sharing, and growing. Join us at OpenSearchCon NA: https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN

Leading the teams behind AWS's search, analytics, vector database, & observability services is no small job. Meet Tia White, GM of OpenSearch, joining the OpenSearchCon North America keynote lineup! See her in San Jose, CA, Sept 22-24: https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN Keynote lineup: https://bit.ly/4fgjXzF

4 days left to apply for the next OpenSearch Ambassador cohort. Share knowledge. Create content. Organize events. Support the community. Applications close August 7. https://bit.ly/4yGaaKW

🎙️ Sept 22-24 in San Jose: #OpenSearchCon NA welcomes Bill Pearson, Intel, to the keynote lineup. Bill leads Data Center Ecosystem & cross-Intel compiler & tools engineering. Keynote lineup: https://bit.ly/4fgjXzF Register by Sept 6 and SAVE! https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN

The Agent Skills Hackathon is live — and there's still time to jump in. OpenSearch Ambassador Neel Shah breaks down the details, why it's worth your weekend, and how to get started before submissions close. $5K in prizes! Submit your agent skills by August 17th! https://bit.ly/443K3iM

Agentic Relevance Tuning, presented at OpenSearchCon Europe 2026, brings LLM-powered agents into the search engineering workflow. ART helps detect relevance issues, generate tuning hypotheses, validate improvements, and automate the path toward better search results. Read: https://bit.ly/4bn4T0E

🎙️ From CERN to the #OpenSearchCon North America 2026 mainstage, Sokratis Papadopoulos joins our keynote lineup, Sept 22-24 in San Jose, CA. He's the DevOps engineer leading the #OpenSearch service offering across CERN's teams + an active voice in the community. Keynote lineup: https://bit.ly/4fgjXzF

The OpenSearch Certified Practitioner (OSCP) certification is coming soon. Designed for beginners, OSCP will help practitioners validate their foundational OpenSearch knowledge and showcase their skills across the OpenSearch ecosystem. Be among the first to earn OSCP → https://bit.ly/45r7H9y

🎙️ Keynote speaker spotlight: Dom Couldwell, IBM! Catch him on the main stage at #OpenSearchCon North America, Sept 22-24 in San Jose, talking about why retrieval is the hardest, most essential part of the AI stack. Keynote lineup: https://bit.ly/4fgjXzF Get your pass: https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN

With agents capable of pushing 100K queries per min, search and observability need to scale it. EE Times features insights from Bianca Lewis on OpenSearch’s role in AI infrastructure, alongside Linux Foundation General Manager Arpit Joshipura on the evolution of the AI stack: https://bit.ly/3RW3PKE

9 days left to apply for the next OpenSearch Ambassador cohort. OpenSearch Ambassadors help grow the community by organizing events, creating educational resources, supporting newcomers, and sharing best practices. Submit your application by August 7: https://bit.ly/4vVUPE2

When running gen AI and vector search in production, keeping ML endpoints off the public internet is essential for security. Nathalie Jonathan walks through how to configure OpenSearch's ML Commons plugin to connect to private endpoints within your internal network: https://bit.ly/3TJdyV4

If you’ve been to OpenSearchCon, you know the energy. Deep technical sessions. Honest conversations about running systems at scale. New ideas around search, observability, and AI. OpenSearchCon NA 2026 is coming to San Jose, Sept 22–24. Register → https://bit.ly/4fY1W9q

The Agent Skills Hackathon is designed for builders with ideas, not just OpenSearch veterans. Everything needed to get started is available on the hackathon page, including resources to help turn ideas into working agentic IDE skills → https://bit.ly/443K3iM

The future of OpenSearch is built by its community. Foundation members help shape the roadmap, collaborate with industry leaders, and contribute to the evolution of open source search, analytics, observability, and AI. Join the OpenSearch Software Foundation: https://bit.ly/4y6d1w3

#OpenSearchCon North America is coming soon! Join us in San Jose Sept 22-24 & book your stay onsite with our conference rate! The room block at the San Jose Marriott closes Aug 30. Rooms may sell out, book early to get the group rate. Book now: https://bit.ly/49Rzbbb Register: https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN

The OpenSearch Agent Skills Hackathon is open. See how Agent Skills can go from cluster setup to ingestion to search in under 10 minutes with pre-built workflows, lightweight UI components, and powerful search capabilities. Watch the demo: https://bit.ly/4yvxXgi Join: https://bit.ly/443K3iM

🎙️ The #OpenSearchCon North America keynote lineup is here: ✨ Dom Couldwell, IBM ✨ Sokratis Papadopoulos, CERN ✨ Bianca Lewis, OpenSearch Software Foundation ✨ Carl Meadows, AWS View speakers: https://bit.ly/4fgjXzF Sept 22–24, San Jose. Early bird = $100 off through Sept 6: https://bit.ly/3NXhWNN

Unnati Mishra and Akshat Khanna explore how privacy-aware search can be built into OpenSearch through ingest-time PII redaction and differential privacy for analytics. This helps organizations protect sensitive data while preserving the insights. Read: https://bit.ly/4gvqEPk

$5,000 prize pool.The OpenSearch Agent Skills Hackathon is underway. Create skills for search, observability, log analytics, or migration for a chance to earn recognition, get spotlighted at OpenSearchCon NA. Learn how to build: https://bit.ly/3RN91jX Join: https://bit.ly/443K3iM

OpenSearchCon NA 2026 has announced its full schedule. Join developers, architects, and enterprise leaders September 22-24 in San Jose for 60+ keynotes, lightning talks, breakout sessions, and hands-on workshops. Dive into building a complete OpenSearch observability stack: https://bit.ly/4wZlZdj

15 days left to apply for the next #OpenSearchAmbassador cohort. Applications are open year-round, but submissions received by August 7 will be considered in the next review cycle. Learn how to apply to the ambassador program here: https://bit.ly/4vVUPE2

Join @horovits.bsky.social and Megha Goyal from AWS to explore how the OpenSearch Observability Stack helps teams move beyond traditional monitoring with visibility into agentic AI performance, including reasoning traces, token usage, latency, and automated actions. Watch: https://bit.ly/3Tv7aAI

Karsten Schnitter from member company SAP explores how the OpenSearch KEDA scaler, contributed by SAP and available in KEDA 2.20+, enables teams to scale based on query results from logs, traces, and observability data without building a separate metrics pipeline. Read on: https://bit.ly/4vHr2Ow