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

Kibana / Opensearch Dashboards: Error when creating new index pattern (Bad Request)

This article is based on internal documentation from CyberSift, and since this seems to be a problem which others might run into, I've posted it here Problem scenario When attempting to (re-)create a new index pattern from Kibana / Opensearch Dashboards, we encounter the error Bad Request: Troubleshooting steps First point of call is the … Continue reading Kibana / Opensearch Dashboards: Error when creating new index pattern (Bad Request)