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Amazon OpenSearch Service launches MCP Apps for agentic observability

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, enabling users to investigate incidents using logs, traces, and metrics within compatible agentic IDEs like Claude Desktop and VS Code, with interactive visualizations for review.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, bringing observability workflows directly into compatible agentic IDEs such as Claude Desktop and VS Code. With this capability, the AI agent in the local environment can investigate incidents using logs, traces, metrics, and alerts stored in OpenSearch domains, collections, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Users can easily review and verify the results in interactive MCP App visualizations without leaving the local environment. Each MCP App tool call returns a dual response: a concise text summary for the agent to reason over and an interactive visualization rendered in the same conversation thread for review. Users can work alongside the observability agent from firing an alert, performing root cause analysis, exploring distributed traces, service maps, PromQL metric charts, and cross-signal correlations all within a single conversation. Available MCP App tools cover log, metrics, and trace investigation, service performance, topology, dynamic visualizations, agent health, cluster health, and instrumentation scoring. The OpenSearch MCP app experience is available in all AWS Regions where the Amazon OpenSearch UI is offered.

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