Link directly to search

[mreishus]

I have an automated email that reports on data found in yesterday's logstash entries. It includes links to kibana that in kibana 2, would prepopulate searches with the data I wanted to drill down to. It used the general form of "http://mykibanasite.com/#" . encode_base64($search_json).

Example: http://mykibanasite.com/#eyJzZWFyY2giOiIgdHlwZTpcImFobV9jYWtlX2xvZ1wiIEFORCBhaG10eXBlOlwiZXJyb3JcIiIsImZpZWxkcyI6W10sIm9mZnNldCI6MCwidGltZWZyYW1lIjoiY3VzdG9tIiwidGltZSI6eyJmcm9tIjoiMjAxNC0wMi0xMlQwMDowMDowMC0wNTowMCIsInRvIjoiMjAxNC0wMi0xMlQyMzo1OTo1OS0wNTowMCIsInVzZXJfaW50ZXJ2YWwiOiIxIn19

It seems that this is no longer supported in kibana 3 with the new dashboard philosophy. I would like some way to link to a dashboard with a search prepopulated.

If this isn't possible, is there another way for me to generate links to dynamic searches? I'm fine with making the dashboard before hand, I would just like to link to a search.

[rashidkpc]

This is possible using templated dashboards, for example:

http://demo.kibana.org/#/dashboard/file/logstash.json?query=HEHE.php

If you open dashboards/logstash.json you'll see how it handles taking arguments. You can use the same style to parameterize any dashboard with custom URL parameters. Much more friendly than the old base64 encoded strings. Also check out logstash.js for an example of how you can do even more complex scripting.

[mreishus]

this is great - thank you.

[mreishus]

note to anyone else stumbling on this issue later - there is more information here: http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/kibana-3-milestone-4/