When installing DPOD in Non-Appliance mode, it is possible to install Kibana OSS to access DPOD data.
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The Expert Mode dashboards provide access to the API-Connect Analytics Offload data through the OpenSearch Dashboards application.
Expert Mode dashboards should be used with caution:
Permissions are not enforced (e.g.: Custom Roles defined in DPOD). Everyone with access to
KibanaExpert Mode dashboards will have access to all the data stored in DPOD, including internal data that should not be visible to standard users.
- Kibana Elasticsearch
Expert Mode dashboards queries are not optimized the way DPOD queries are. Performing an unoptimized query
using Kibanamight cause performance and memory issues
, that will impact DPOD stability and performance significantly.
- Kibana access
Currently, access to Expert Mode dashboards is only
permittedallowed to Administrators of DPOD.
- The
Changes in the internal structure of DPOD data
is not documented and might change between versions of DPOD or the gateway/APIC. - DPOD team does not provide any support regarding Kibana usage.
- Kibana access to DPOD data is not guaranteed to be supported in future versions
may affect custom dashboards and queries created by users in the Expert Mode dashboards.
The DPOD team provides basic support for the Expert Mode usage of the provided out-of-the-box dashboards. More information on using OpenSearch Dashboards can be found at https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/dashboards/index/.