Select dashboard option in opensearch-dashboard-3.6

Versions (3.6):

Describe the issue: I m new to OpenSearch. I installed OpenSearch 3.6 and read about observability and saw live demo https://observability.playground.opensearch.org/. on that home page personalized custom created dashboard is set as home page. Plus when one clicks settings icon , two menu options appear , hide and select a dashboard. What settings do i need to enable in dashboard yaml file to get that feature ?

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@Rajeshsolanki Could you share your current opensearch_dashboards.yml?

---
# Copyright OpenSearch Contributors
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

# Description:
# Default configuration for OpenSearch Dashboards

# OpenSearch Dashboards is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.
server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the OpenSearch Dashboards server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.
# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.
# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.
# server.host: "localhost"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount OpenSearch Dashboards at if you are running behind a proxy.
# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell OpenSearch Dashboards if it should remove the basePath
# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.
# This setting cannot end in a slash.
# server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether OpenSearch Dashboards should rewrite requests that are prefixed with
# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.
# server.rewriteBasePath: false

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.
# server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576

# The OpenSearch Dashboards server's name.  This is used for display purposes.
# server.name: "your-hostname"

# The URLs of the OpenSearch instances to use for all your queries.
#opensearch.hosts: ["http://localhost:9200"]
        

# OpenSearch Dashboards uses an index in OpenSearch to store saved searches, visualizations and
# dashboards. OpenSearch Dashboards creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.
# opensearchDashboards.index: ".opensearch_dashboards"

# The default application to load.
# opensearchDashboards.defaultAppId: "home"

# Setting for an optimized healthcheck that only uses the local OpenSearch node to do Dashboards healthcheck.
# This settings should be used for large clusters or for clusters with ingest heavy nodes.
# It allows Dashboards to only healthcheck using the local OpenSearch node rather than fan out requests across all nodes.
#
# It requires the user to create an OpenSearch node attribute with the same name as the value used in the setting
# This node attribute should assign all nodes of the same cluster an integer value that increments with each new cluster that is spun up
# e.g. in opensearch.yml file you would set the value to a setting using node.attr.cluster_id:
# Should only be enabled if there is a corresponding node attribute created in your OpenSearch config that matches the value here
# opensearch.optimizedHealthcheckId: "cluster_id"

# If your OpenSearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide
# the username and password that the OpenSearch Dashboards server uses to perform maintenance on the OpenSearch Dashboards
# index at startup. Your OpenSearch Dashboards users still need to authenticate with OpenSearch, which
# is proxied through the OpenSearch Dashboards server.
# opensearch.username: "opensearch_dashboards_system"
# opensearch.password: "pass"

# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.
# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the OpenSearch Dashboards server to the browser.
# server.ssl.enabled: false
# server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt
# server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key

# Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files.
# These files are used to verify the identity of OpenSearch Dashboards to OpenSearch and are required when
# xpack.security.http.ssl.client_authentication in OpenSearch is set to required.
# opensearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt
# opensearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key

# Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate
# authority for your OpenSearch instance.
# opensearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: [ "/path/to/your/CA.pem" ]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.
# opensearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# Time in milliseconds to wait for OpenSearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of
# the opensearch.requestTimeout setting.
# opensearch.pingTimeout: 1500

# Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or OpenSearch. This value
# must be a positive integer.
# opensearch.requestTimeout: 30000

# List of OpenSearch Dashboards client-side headers to send to OpenSearch. To send *no* client-side
# headers, set this value to [] (an empty list).
# opensearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [ authorization ]

# Header names and values that are sent to OpenSearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten
# by client-side headers, regardless of the opensearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.
# opensearch.customHeaders: {}

# Time in milliseconds for OpenSearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.
# opensearch.shardTimeout: 30000

# Logs queries sent to OpenSearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true.
# opensearch.logQueries: false

# Specifies the path where OpenSearch Dashboards creates the process ID file.
# pid.file: /var/run/opensearchDashboards.pid

# Enables you to specify a file where OpenSearch Dashboards stores log output.
# logging.dest: stdout

# 2.15 Ignore 'ENOSPC' error for logging stream.
# When set to true, the 'ENOSPC' error message will not cause the OpenSearch Dashboards process to crash. Otherwise,
# the original behavior will be maintained. It is disabled by default.
# logging.ignoreEnospcError: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.
# logging.silent: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.
# logging.quiet: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information
# and all requests.
# logging.verbose: false

# Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance
# metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000.
# ops.interval: 5000

# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.
# Supported languages are the following: English - en , by default , Chinese - zh-CN .
# i18n.locale: "en"

# Set the allowlist to check input graphite Url. Allowlist is the default check list.
# vis_type_timeline.graphiteAllowedUrls: ['https://www.hostedgraphite.com/UID/ACCESS_KEY/graphite']

# Set the blocklist to check input graphite Url. Blocklist is an IP list.
# Below is an example for reference
# vis_type_timeline.graphiteBlockedIPs: [
#  //Loopback
#  '127.0.0.0/8',
#  '::1/128',
#  //Link-local Address for IPv6
#  'fe80::/10',
#  //Private IP address for IPv4
#  '10.0.0.0/8',
#  '172.16.0.0/12',
#  '192.168.0.0/16',
#  //Unique local address (ULA)
#  'fc00::/7',
#  //Reserved IP address
#  '0.0.0.0/8',
#  '100.64.0.0/10',
#  '192.0.0.0/24',
#  '192.0.2.0/24',
#  '198.18.0.0/15',
#  '192.88.99.0/24',
#  '198.51.100.0/24',
#  '203.0.113.0/24',
#  '224.0.0.0/4',
#  '240.0.0.0/4',
#  '255.255.255.255/32',
#  '::/128',
#  '2001:db8::/32',
#  'ff00::/8',
# ]
# vis_type_timeline.graphiteBlockedIPs: []

# opensearchDashboards.branding:
#   logo:
#     defaultUrl: ""
#     darkModeUrl: ""
#   mark:
#     defaultUrl: ""
#     darkModeUrl: ""
#   loadingLogo:
#     defaultUrl: ""
#     darkModeUrl: ""
#   faviconUrl: ""
#   applicationTitle: ""

# Set the value of this setting to true to capture region blocked warnings and errors
# for your map rendering services.
# map.showRegionBlockedWarning: false%

# Set the value of this setting to false to suppress search usage telemetry
# for reducing the load of OpenSearch cluster.
# data.search.usageTelemetry.enabled: false

# 2.4 renames 'wizard.enabled: false' to 'vis_builder.enabled: false'
# Set the value of this setting to false to disable VisBuilder
# functionality in Visualization.
# vis_builder.enabled: false

# 2.4 New Experimental Feature
# Set the value of this setting to true to enable the experimental multiple data source
# support feature. Use with caution.
# data_source.enabled: false
# Set the value of these settings to customize crypto materials to encryption saved credentials
# in data sources.
# data_source.encryption.wrappingKeyName: 'changeme'
# data_source.encryption.wrappingKeyNamespace: 'changeme'
# data_source.encryption.wrappingKey: [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]

# 2.6 New ML Commons Dashboards Feature
# Set the value of this setting to true to enable the ml commons dashboards
# ml_commons_dashboards.enabled: false

# 2.12 New Experimental Assistant Dashboards Feature
# Set the value of this setting to true to enable the assistant dashboards
# assistant.chat.enabled: false

# 2.13 New Query Assistant Feature
# Set the value of this setting to false to disable the query assistant
# observability.query_assist.enabled: false

# 2.14 Enable Ui Metric Collectors in Usage Collector
# Set the value of this setting to true to enable UI Metric collections
# usageCollection.uiMetric.enabled: false

# 2.18 New Experimental Settings
# Set the value to true to enable
# assistant.alertInsight.enabled: false
# assistant.smartAnomalyDetector.enabled: false
# assistant.text2viz.enabled: false
# queryEnhancements.queryAssist.summary.enabled: false

# 3.3 New Core Settings
# Default to false, set true to not display the explore experience modal
# home.disableWelcomeScreen: false
# home.disableExperienceModal: false

# 3.5 New Investigation Dashboards Feature
# Default to false, set true to enable the investigation dashboards
# investigation.enabled: false
# Default to false, set true to enable the agentic features in investigation dashboards
# investigation.agenticFeaturesEnabled: false

opensearch.hosts: [https://localhost:9200]
opensearch.ssl.verificationMode: none
opensearch.username: kibanaserver
opensearch.password: kibanaserver
opensearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization, securitytenant]

opensearch_security.multitenancy.enabled: true
opensearch_security.multitenancy.tenants.preferred: [Private, Global]
opensearch_security.readonly_mode.roles: [admin]
# Use this setting if you are running opensearch-dashboards without https
opensearch_security.cookie.secure: false

# Set the value to true to enable multiple data source feature
data_source.enabled: true

# Set the value to true to enable workspace feature
workspace.enabled: true
uiSettings:
  overrides:
    "home:useNewHomePage": true
# Set the value to true to enable explore feature
explore.enabled: true


application_config.enabled: true
opensearchDashboards.futureNavigation: true
data.savedQueriesNewUI.enabled: truedata_source.enabled: true


# Set the value to true to enable explore feature

savedObjects.permission.enabled: true
vis_augmenter.pluginAugmentationEnabled: true
data.savedQueriesNewUI.enabled: true
opensearchDashboards.dashboardAdmin.groups: ["admin"]
explore.discoverTraces.enabled: true
explore.discoverMetrics.enabled: true

management.enabled: true

Anh idea on what am i missing ? My goal is to have custom dashboard as home page for each workspace like kibana has.

I’m wondering how this config worked for you?
The first line is incorrect and repeats the last one. Did OSD start?

Regarding the Default route, it is valid only per tenant and won’t work across different workspaces.

When using workspaces, the multitenancy must be disabled in both OpenSearch Dashboards and OpenSearch as per OpenSearch documentation.

Regarding the first screenshot, the option of the default dashboard is only available in Observability. According to my tests, this will only work when Workspaces are disabled in opensearch_dashboards.yml. That’s why it works for you in the OpenSearch playground, as Workspaces are disabled there.
Not sure if this is a bug or per-design behaviour.

You could consider disabling workspaces and keeping the new UI with multitenancy.
What kind of configuration do you want to achieve?

Pablo

thanks for the reply and my apologies for replying late.

What kind of configuration do you want to achieve? >> We are currently moving away form ElasitcSearch to OpenSearch so trying to replicate most of our Kibana style setup in opensearch dashboard. I want each workspace to have its custom home page like Kibana allows. But that’s only possible in observability as you said.

Regarding config yes my OSD starts fine. To Achieve what i m trying what are my options ?

@Rajeshsolanki As you mentioned, a custom home page is only possible with the Observability workspace.
At this point, I would suggest opening a feature request in the OpenSearch Dashboards GitHub repo.
If you do so, please share the link in this thread for traceability.