setting up opensearch dashboard

tested on debian12

install

setup

#ln -s /etc/opensearch-dashboards /usr/share/opensearch-dashboards/config

    cd /etc/opensearch-dashboards/
    mv -i opensearch_dashboards.yml opensearch_dashboards.yml.dist
    grep -vE '^#|^$' opensearch_dashboards.yml.dist > opensearch_dashboards.yml.clean
    grep -vE '^#|^$' opensearch_dashboards.yml.dist > opensearch_dashboards.yml
    vi opensearch_dashboards.yml

opensearch.hosts: [https://opensearch0:9200]
opensearch.ssl.verificationMode: none
opensearch.username: admin
opensearch.password: PASSWORD-HERE
opensearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization]
opensearch_security.readonly_mode.roles: [kibana_read_only]
opensearch_security.multitenancy.enabled: false

# https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/install-and-configure/install-dashboards/tls/
# true when there is ssl
opensearch_security.cookie.secure: true

server.host: 0.0.0.0

and make sure you clean-up all the default kibana users and roles once daemon is started

plugins

switch on

chsh -s /bin/bash opensearch-dashboards
su - opensearch-dashboards

those are already installed

cd /usr/share/opensearch-dashboards/
bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin list
# --allow-root

if you need more

bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install ...

switch off

chsh -s /sbin/nologin opensearch-dashboards

ready to go

nmap -p 9200 localhost
curl https://localhost:9200/ -k -u kibanaserver:kibanaserver
curl https://localhost:9200/ -k -u admin:PASSWORD

systemctl restart opensearch-dashboards
systemctl status opensearch-dashboards
systemctl enable opensearch-dashboards

ps auxww | grep dashboard
netstat -lntup

reach the service

ssh opensearch3 -L 5601:localhost:5601

https://localhost:5601/

operations

not sure why no logs show up there

ls -lF /var/log/opensearch-dashboards/
#tail -F /var/log/opensearch-dashboards/*log

resources

https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/install-and-configure/install-dashboards/debian/