Updated vision & roadmap publication for 2026 by the TSC

[horovits]

The community had a blog post describing the vision and roadmap for 2024-2025:
https://opensearch.org/blog/opensearch-project-roadmap-2024-2025/

As we approach Q4 '25, it's a good time to issue an updated one.
And it's best be issued as a formal collateral of the TSC, as the authoritative source.

The need has also come up in the TAG Observability forum, in the context of the observability side of the roadmap:
https://opensearch.slack.com/archives/C099JC25KQ8/p1758006963117139

[andrross]

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@krisfreedain to take a look

[krisfreedain]

@Pallavi-AWS - would be good to have your input/leadership on this. Happy to work on it with you.

[horovits]

This question came up in the OpenSearch community slack instance, in the dashboards channel, about roadmap for dashboards, that may be a good to address as part of the roadmap blog:
https://opensearch.slack.com/archives/C01QENNTGUD/p1770975784836179
cc @krisfreedain

Hello, I have some general management questions regarding the future of OpenSearch Dashboards:

Is there any "official" direction for Dashboards future, in regards with tenants vs workspaces? and new UI vs old UI? Currently you can mix and match any deployment you like, but will a certain configuration become the "default" and "future-proof", deprecated some options?
Should I work into migrating all the tenants into workspaces for my multi-tenant OpenSearch cluster, stay with tenants for the long-term, do whatever I feel nicer? Will there indeed be some development work to support automatic migration from tenants to workspaces?
Relevant issues:

opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards#10490
opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards#10279

[horovits]

for the observability roadmap, there's this open issue from June '25:
opensearch-project/dashboards-observability#2469
I left a comment to see its status, and suggest a fresh one to cover 2026 roadmap

[horovits]

With the publish of the blog post, we can close this issue:
https://opensearch.org/blog/the-2026-opensearch-roadmap-four-pillars-for-ai-native-innovation/