Plugin development for dashboard

ultimatezio · November 27, 2019, 2:14pm

Hi all,
I'm trying to develop a kibana's plugin.
My goal is that every time a user access a dashboard, the kibana's server log a users credential (username only) and the dashboard name.
I have an idea of what to make server-side but I don't have any as to how I could get the user credential and the dashboard name from the front.
I'm having trouble finding if I should use any uiExports (like hacks one) even though I will not have any UI related code.

If anyone have an idea of where should I be looking for I'll be grateful

Thanks again.

matw · November 28, 2019, 12:41pm

Here's how you can get the current user in Kibana UI, take a look into the getCurrent method

github.com

elastic/kibana/blob/master/x-pack/legacy/plugins/security/public/services/shield_user.js

/*
 * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
 * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License;
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the Elastic License.
 */

import 'angular-resource';
import angular from 'angular';
import { uiModules } from 'ui/modules';

const module = uiModules.get('security', ['ngResource']);
module.service('ShieldUser', ($resource, chrome) => {
  const baseUrl = chrome.addBasePath('/api/security/v1/users/:username');
  const ShieldUser = $resource(baseUrl, {
    username: '@username'
  }, {
    changePassword: {
      method: 'POST',
      url: `${baseUrl}/password`,
      transformRequest: ({ password, newPassword }) => angular.toJson({ password, newPassword })

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There is one way how you can find out which user is requesting which dashboard, it's when you enable audit logs:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/xpack-security-audit-logging.html#_audit_event_types

This generates a log when user A accessed saved object B, which would be a Dashboard in this case

could that help in your case?

ultimatezio · November 28, 2019, 1:05pm

I'll look into it, thanks for the informations

system · December 26, 2019, 1:05pm

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