Adding Opensearch-Dashboards/Kibana filters to Vega visuals

Opensearch-Dashboards and Kibana allow for the use of the "vega" library, which lets developers build an arbitrarily complex visualization. One of my favorite visuals which is not included in the standard visualization library is the "Sankey Diagram". Since it's not part and parcel of the preset charts offered by Opensearch Dashboards, we resort to Vega. … Continue reading Adding Opensearch-Dashboards/Kibana filters to Vega visuals

Lessons learned: Custom Opensearch Dashboards Plugin Security

To determine the user that is signed in when making a request to your plugin server, or in more formal words the "authentication context" of a request you have two options Client Side This is not very secure as it is initiated and consumed by the browser, which is under the complete control of the … Continue reading Lessons learned: Custom Opensearch Dashboards Plugin Security