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Using Dev Tools

The Dev Tools application in OpenSearch Dashboards provides tools for querying your cluster and testing queries and ingest patterns.

To open Dev Tools, select Dev Tools on the main OpenSearch Dashboards page, as shown in the following image.

Dev Tools console from main page

You can open Dev Tools from any other page by navigating to the main menu and selecting Management > Dev Tools, as shown in the following image.

Dev Tools console from all pages

In installations with workspaces enabled, select the code icon (code icon) in the lower-left corner of the navigation panel.

Using Dev Tools

The Dev Tools application is shown in the following image.

Dev Tools Console application

Dev Tools contains the following applications:

  • Console sends Query DSL queries and other REST API requests to OpenSearch and displays the responses.
  • Grok Debugger builds and tests Grok patterns against sample log data before you use them in ingest pipelines.
  • Query Profiler measures how long each part of a search query takes to run so that you can identify slow components.
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