Operational panels
Operational panels are dashboards that contain visualizations created using Piped Processing Language (PPL) queries. You create the visualizations in Event analytics, Metric analytics, or Application analytics and then add them to a panel. In OpenSearch Dashboards, operational panels are called Observability dashboards.
Operational panels are a classic observability app. They are not available when multiple data sources or the new home page are enabled.
To view operational panels, on the top menu, go to Observability > Dashboards. To explore a set of sample panels and visualizations without adding your own data, select Add samples.
Creating an operational panel
To create an operational panel, follow these steps:
- On the top menu, go to Observability > Dashboards.
- Select Create Dashboard.
- In Name, enter a name for the panel, and then select Create.
Adding visualizations
To add a visualization to a panel, open the panel, select Add visualization, and then select one of the following options:
- Select existing visualization: Select a saved visualization from the list, and then select Add.
- Create new visualization: Opens the Event analytics explorer. Enter a PPL query, select Run, and then select the Visualizations tab. To save the visualization to the panel, select Save, select the panel in Custom operational dashboards/application, enter a Name, and then select Save.
Operational panels filter every visualization by time, so the index that a visualization queries must contain a field of the date type. If the index has no date field, the visualization is empty.
Filtering visualizations
To filter all visualizations in a panel, enter a PPL where clause in the search bar at the top of the panel, for example, where response = '404'. To change the time range for all visualizations, use the time picker. Then select Refresh.
Managing panels
To reload, rename, duplicate, or delete a panel, open the panel and select Dashboard Actions. To delete a panel, enter delete in the confirmation dialog.