Exploring data
OpenSearch Dashboards provides several tools for exploring data, enabling everything from basic one-time queries to savable API-equivalent queries. You can do the following:
- Explore data in the Discover or Dashboards search bar using Dashboards Query Language (DQL), a Dashboards-specific language for basic queries, or Query String Query Language, based on Apache Lucene.
- Use the Query Workbench tool to execute queries in SQL or Piped Processing Language (PPL).
- Use the Dev Tools console to run queries in Query Domain-specific Language (Query DSL). With Query DSL you can run any query as if from the API.
- Display and save visuals of queried data in the Discover and Visualize tools.
| To learn more about | Go to | Query languages used |
|---|---|---|
| Exploring data quickly | Exploring data with Discover | Dashboards Query Language (DQL) or Query String Query Language (Lucene) |
| Querying data | Using Query Workbench | Structured Query Language (SQL) or Piped Processing Language (PPL) |
| Querying data using the API | Running queries in the Dev Tools Console | Query Domain-specific Language (Query DSL) |
| Visualizing data graphically | Building data visualizations | None |