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-# Observability Maintainers
+## Overview
+
+This document contains a list of maintainers in this repo. See [opensearch-project/.github/RESPONSIBILITIES.md](https://github.com/opensearch-project/.github/blob/main/RESPONSIBILITIES.md#maintainer-responsibilities) that explains what the role of maintainer means, what maintainers do in this and other repos, and how they should be doing it. If you're interested in contributing, and becoming a maintainer, see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+
+## Current Maintainers
 
-## Maintainers
 | Maintainer        | GitHub ID                                         | Affiliation |
-|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------|-------------|
+| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------- |
 | David Cui         | [davidcui1225](https://github.com/davidcui1225)   | Amazon      |
 | Eric Wei          | [mengweieric](https://github.com/mengweieric)     | Amazon      |
 | Joshua Li         | [joshuali925](https://github.com/joshuali925)     | Amazon      |