Access OpenSearch Dashboards

Once OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards are running, open your browser and navigate to the following URL:

http://localhost:5601 or https://localhost:5601 for a local installation.
https://playground.opensearch.org/app/home#/ for the OpenSearch Playground.

If your cluster uses the Security plugin, OpenSearch Dashboards opens a sign-in page. Sign in as the admin user with the password that you set in OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD when you installed OpenSearch. For more information, see Setting the initial admin password.

OpenSearch Dashboards refers to the web UI for OpenSearch—the application you’re looking at in your browser.

The Dashboards application is the tool within OpenSearch Dashboards for assembling visualizations into a single page.

A dashboard (lowercase) is an individual page of visualizations created in the Dashboards application.

Accessing applications used in this section

The Getting started tutorials use the Discover, Visualize, and Dashboards applications and the Dev Tools console. Use the left navigation panel on the left side of the UI to select any application or settings page that you want to use. To open the navigation panel, select the (menu) icon in the header bar at the top of the page. For more information about the home page and the left navigation panel, see Navigating OpenSearch Dashboards.

In installations in which workspaces are not enabled, the left navigation panel lists all applications directly. The following image highlights the applications used in the tutorials.

Prepare your data.
Explore the Discover application.
Explore the Dashboards application.
Explore the Visualize application.
Run queries in OpenSearch Dashboards.

The examples in this documentation use classic navigation. If you have workspaces enabled, the menu structure is different but the same applications are available within your workspace.

If workspaces are enabled, first create and select a workspace. For more information, see Workspaces navigation. The following image shows the left navigation within an example Analytics workspace, including the applications used in the tutorials.