Is there a way to dynamically add "Create an index pattern" for open dashboards?

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1

Open Dashboards “Create index pattern” using an API or some sort of hack?

Any pointers in the right direction would be of great help.

2

Thanks for asking, @mugambi_k ! I went to find the documentation on this subject, and I was shocked when I couldn’t find it either!

I shall file a documentation update on your behalf and see if I can’t find an engineer who knows the answer to your question.

Thanks again!

Nate

3

I found a hack solution below:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58270749/dynamic-index-pattern-kibana

Seems to work ok for now.

POST .kibana/_doc/index-pattern:<index-name>
{
  "type" : "index-pattern",
  "index-pattern" : {
    "title": "index-*",  ---> pattern to match index
    "timeFieldName": "execution_time" ---> Time field
  }
}
4

The best is to use the dashboard API (Kibana API)

I’m using it to create both indices, visualizations and dashboards