# Reporting from Discover **URL:** \ **Category:** OpenSearch\ **Created:** [February 28, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-from-discover/23605 "2025-02-28T10:05:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChrizK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@ChrizK](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/ChrizK)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-from-discover/23605/1 "2025-02-28T10:05:18Z")
NOTE: I am an ‘end user’ and not involved in support/maintenance or configuration. I may, or may not, have access to configuration. If directed to configuration, I’m afraid I would need some detailed instruction, which I may direct to our support. The organisation in which I work is moving to OpenSearch due to a change in the platforms from which it collects data (indexes). The older version of OpenSearch (I think 2.6.0., but Stack Management shows 2.3.0 ) had the **Reporting capability directly available in Discover** However, when trying to use Reporting, it fails and we have been told (by support) that it is a known issue and doesn’t work. I have had to swap environment in which version 2.16.1 is installed (I can’t actually see a version in the GUI management?). This does **NOT have Reporting available directly in Discover**. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/mauve_hedgehog/original/2X/d/dd2bd5ec9ad7ff6f1a204551d8520d02663861ae.png) To run a report, we have been told we have to save it. This seems very inefficient, as Discover gives the ability to customise ad-hoc searches, allowing for easy modification from the Search bar, ie I can add filters (which I happily save), but also, as an example, search for a telephone number 447712345678\* within the Search bar. I then want to report, change the telephone number 447787654321\*, and report again. It would obviously be more efficient to do this without having to save every variation, which I assume to be the point of having Reporting ‘within Discover’, which now appears to be lost. NB When I have saved my report, the Search bar wildcard is saved. I go to the Reporting Plugin, run the report with my selected dates, which works, but my selected columns have been lost, defaulting back to something I have not specified, making the report CSV unreadable without editing in Excel and removing and rearranging. TBH I haven’t even tried doing this, as it isn’t worth the effort, and I don’t even know if the columns I actually want are there. My question is, is it possible to have Reporting directly available in Discover 2.16, and for me to use ad-hoc search strings from the the Search Bar (without resaving every time), and for my selected columns to be in the report? ---
**Author:** ![ChrizK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@ChrizK](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/ChrizK)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-from-discover/23605/2 "2025-03-04T15:42:08Z")
OpenSearch has been rolled out to another environment, and I am becoming more frustrated with Reporting. At this time, my biggest frustration is loss of my selected columns. IMO it is ridiculous to be forced to use, what appears to be, a predefined set of superfluous columns. ---
**Author:** ![kris](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/kris/32/2208_2.png) [@kris](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/reporting-from-discover/23605/3 "2025-03-05T20:20:47Z")
@AMoo-Miki @ashwinpc - could you help out @ChrizK on this one? Thank you