Hello,
I have one dashboard name "System-matrix".
I want Kibana to show this dashboard as its default home page when user hit the Kibana url.
How to achieve this?
br,
Sunil.
Hi Sunil,
You can share that dashboard as an iFrame:
You can also create a dashboard only user and give access permissions to only that dashboard:
Right now - these are the two ways you can do it.
Cheers,
Bhavya
Hello Bhavya,
I understand, I have to purchase license for this.
is there any way, so that I can make default page as "my-dashboard" instead of the kibana home page.
When I modify default app id in configuration by putting the dashboard name, it doesn't work.
br,
Sunil.
You don't have to pay for the basic license. Its free and doesn't expire.
Your default page cannot be a dashboard. We don't have that ability yet in Kibana 
Hope that helps.
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Hello Bhavya,
Can you guide me to get that basic license?
Can I use the same in production environment too?
Br,
Sunil.
Yes you can. But you need to make sure to put some authentication on it on your own as basic doesn't have security.
You need to install x-pack on your oss and get the basic license: (If you want to get the latest 6.x - it will be 6.2.4 https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana) . These are our docs for installing x-pack. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/current/index.html. Basic license on this version is valid for an year. You get a trial when you start with and after a month you need to get license. https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions
But if you wait for a few weeks - you will have a default distribution of the stack with the basic license which never expires on 6.3.0. Our next release is with x-pack(basic license) included on the default installation package: https://www.elastic.co/products/x-pack/open
Again please note you need add your own auth.
Thanks.
Bhavya
Hello Bhavya,
I got basic license.
But here is another problem.
When I installed x-pack for Kibana and Elasticsearch, I could crate all type of users, roles and it was working happily.
However when I installed basic license for elasticsearch, after that Kibana stopped asking the credentials when I hit the kibana url.
What might be the problem?
br,
Sunil.
Hi Sunil,
As mentioned by @bhavyarm the basic license does not provide "Security" as a feature. You might want to have a look at some other options for that.
Here is a comparison of features for license types.
https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions
Regards,
N
Ok Thanks.
Now I want to switch back to the one month trial version.
How to do that?
How can I keep updating one month trial for 3-4 months, till we come to some conclusion of buying license?
My plan is to evaluate all features and then go for license.
Please guide.
br,
Sunil.
Reinstall the instance every month. This will cause data loss.
I have found a way to achieve this. In Kibana there is one configuration setting, which you can set to set a default path:
# The default application to load.
kibana.defaultAppId: "dashboard/9f8f1b50-4c2f-11e8-b802-f579584b9efd"
You can set this to open a specific dashboard. Let me know if this helps.
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Hi can somebody answer above question.
I have removed basic license.
I thought now there might security feature come back, but it did not. How to come back to trial version again. I have to give demo of security.
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