Load a default dashboard rather than starting new

[LuudJanssen]

In our production environment we found that it can be annoying to select a saved dashboard every time you reload Kibana. Therefore the function to set a dashboard as default would be helpful.

We decided to develop this feature ourselves because we needed it on short-term. So if this seems like a helpful feature to you, I'll send a pull request.

[spalger]

You can set the kibana.defaultAppId: "dashboard/id"

[LuudJanssen]

That's one option. But that also means that the default app has to be the dashboard. I can imagine use cases where you'd want to have discover as your data exploration starting point, then set a filter and go over to dashboard and have the default dashboard loaded. Also, when you were send a link to say an index and then go to the dashboard, you'd not have the default dashboard.

Sidenote: we made an extra option in the dashboard options to set the selected dashboard as default. Which seemed like a nice feature as well

[ryanmaclean]

Would certainly be handy if it were per user!

On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Luud Janssen [email protected] wrote:

That's one option. But that also means that the default app has to be the dashboard. I can imagine use cases where you'd want to have discover as your data exploration starting point, then set a filter and go over to dashboard and have the default dashboard loaded. Also, when you were send a link to say an index and then go to the dashboard, you'd not have the default dashboard.

Sidenote: we made an extra option in the dashboard options to set the selected dashboard as default. Which seemed like a nice feature as well

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[LuudJanssen]

@spalger Care to rethink this issue?

[AlexDings]

+1

[RubieV]

+1 Default App Id seems not logical for a workflow that is based on dashboards, would love this feature for our customers as well!

@ryanmaclean, are you referring to browser cookie?

[spalger]

Until Kibana actually has a concept of users we won't be doing anything "user-specific", but I can understand the desire for a default dashboard that is similar to the default index pattern.

[catalinvr]

+1

[Secespitus]

+1

[barryhatfield]

+1

[orinciog]

+1

[cjcenizal]

I'm going to close this because it was created in the context of a UX which has since changed significantly due to #10003. If anyone still feels like we should implement a feature like the one here, let's create a new issue which defines that feature in the context of the current UX, and cross-link to this issue for reference.