Add documentation for Dashboards plugin list extension

_dashboards/dashboard/plugins-dashboards.md

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+---
+layout: default
+title: Managing plugins with a dashboard
+parent: Observability
+nav_order: 5
+---
+
+# Managing plugins with a dashboard
+
+Introduced 2.7
+{: .label .label-purple }
+
+The default installation of OpenSearch Dashboards includes the Observability plugin, which you can use to visualize data-driven events using Piped Processing Language (PPL) to explore, discover, and query data stored in OpenSearch. The plugin requires OpenSearch 1.2 or later.
+
+The Observability plugin provides a unified experience for collecting and monitoring metrics, logs, and traces from common data sources. Data collection and monitoring in one place enables full-stack, end-to-end observability of your entire infrastructure.
+
+As of OpenSearch 2.7, you can manage your observability plugins with **Observability Dashboards** or **Dashboard**, instead of the plugins page. The plugins are integrated automatically into Observability Dashboards and Dashboard. This feature provides you:
+
+- **Instant access to installed plugins:** Viewing a list of plugins from a dashboard displays all the installed plugins in one place.
+- **Improved efficiency:** With a list of plugins readily available from a dashboard, you can enable, disable, update, or remove them with just a few clicks.
+- **Better troubleshooting:** Viewing a list of plugins from a dashboard can help you quickly identify which plugins may be causing a problem.
+- **Enhanced security:** With a list of plugins readily available from a dashboard, you can easily see if any outdated or vulnerable plugins are present and then quickly remove or update them, minimizing or avoiding security risks.
+- **Improved website performance:** Viewing a list of plugins from a dashboard can help you identify any plugins that may be slowing down your website or causing performance issues.
+
+## Viewing installed plugins
+
+There are two ways to view installed plugins from a dashboard: with Observability Dashboards application or with Dashboard. To view your installed plugins, follow these steps:
+
+1. From the OpenSearch Dashboards main menu, select **Observability** > **Dashboard**. Alternatively, select **Dashboard**.
+2. View the list of items and select your plugin. Plugins are categorized automatically as the Observability Dashboard data type, which you can filter to concentrate on just what you want to see.
+
+The following image shows a list of plugins viewed in the Observability Dashboard interface.
+
+<insert image>
+
+## Installing and removing plugins
+
+To install plugins using the Observability Dashboards application, follow these steps:
+
+1. From the OpenSearch Dashboards main menu, select **Observability Dashboards**. Alternatively, select **Dashboard**.
+2. From the **Dashboards** window, select **Create** > **Observability Dashboard**.
+3. In the **Create operational panel** window, enter a name in the **Name** field, and then select **Create**. The plugin is added to both the Observability Plugins application and the Dashboards application.
+4. To remove the plugin, select <insert steps>.
+
+ ## Staying updated about OpenSearch Dashboards plugins
+
+The [OpenSearch plugins repository](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-plugins) on GitHub is a great way to keep track of and contribute to tasks, feature requests, enhancements, and bugs. The OpenSearch Project team welcomes your input.

_install-and-configure/install-dashboards/plugins.md

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 ---
 layout: default
-title: OpenSearch Dashboards plugins
-parent: Installing OpenSearch Dashboards
-nav_order: 50
+title: Managing OpenSearch Dashboards plugins
+nav_order: 100
 redirect_from: 
   - /dashboards/install/plugins
+  - /install-and-configure/install-dashboards/plugins/
 ---
 
-# Standalone plugin install
+# Managing OpenSearch Dashboards plugins
 
-If you don't want to use the all-in-one installation options, you can install the various plugins for OpenSearch Dashboards individually.
+OpenSearch Dashboards uses a command line tool called `opensearch-plugin` for managing plugins. This tool allows you to:
 
----
-
-#### Table of contents
-1. TOC
-{:toc}
-
-
----
+- List installed plugins.
+- Install plugins.
+- Remove an installed plugin.
 
 ## Plugin compatibility
 
@@ -29,7 +24,7 @@ Major, minor, and patch plugin versions must match OpenSearch major, minor, and
 
 - A compatible OpenSearch cluster
 - The corresponding OpenSearch plugins [installed on that cluster]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/opensearch/install/plugins/)
-- The corresponding version of [OpenSearch Dashboards]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/) (for example, OpenSearch Dashboards 2.1.0 works with OpenSearch 2.1.0)
+- The corresponding version of [OpenSearch Dashboards]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/) (for example, OpenSearch Dashboards 2.3.0 works with OpenSearch 2.3.0)
 
 ## Available plugins
 
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 ## Install
 
-Navigate to the OpenSearch Dashboards home directory (likely `/usr/share/opensearch-dashboards`) and run the install command for each plugin.
+Navigate to the OpenSearch Dashboards home directory (for example, `/usr/share/opensearch-dashboards`) and run the install command for each plugin.
 
 {% comment %}
 
@@ -65,7 +60,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin provides a user interface for managing users, roles, mappings, action groups, and tenants.
 
-
 #### Alerting OpenSearch Dashboards
 
 ```bash
@@ -74,7 +68,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin provides a user interface for creating monitors and managing alerts.
 
-
 #### Index State Management OpenSearch Dashboards
 
 ```bash
@@ -83,7 +76,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin provides a user interface for managing policies.
 
-
 #### Anomaly Detection OpenSearch Dashboards
 
 ```bash
@@ -92,7 +84,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin provides a user interface for adding detectors.
 
-
 #### Query Workbench OpenSearch Dashboards
 
 ```bash
@@ -101,7 +92,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin provides a user interface for using SQL queries to explore your data.
 
-
 #### Trace Analytics
 
 ```bash
@@ -110,7 +100,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin uses distributed trace data (indexed in OpenSearch using Data Prepper) to display latency trends, error rates, and more.
 
-
 #### Notebooks OpenSearch Dashboards
 
 ```bash
@@ -119,7 +108,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin lets you combine OpenSearch Dashboards visualizations and narrative text in a single interface.
 
-
 #### Reports OpenSearch Dashboards
 
 ```bash
@@ -133,7 +121,6 @@ sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin install https://d3g5vo6xdbdb9a.cloudfront.
 
 This plugin lets you export and share reports from OpenSearch Dashboards dashboards, visualizations, and saved searches.
 
-
 #### Gantt Chart OpenSearch Dashboards
 
 ```bash
@@ -144,14 +131,21 @@ This plugin adds a new Gantt chart visualization.
 
 {% endcomment %}
 
-## List installed plugins
+## Viewing a list of installed plugins
 
-To check your installed plugins:
+To view the list of installed plugins from the command line, use the following command:
 
 ```bash
 sudo bin/opensearch-dashboards-plugin list
 ```
 
+To view a list of plugins the OpenSearch Dashboards user interface (UI):
+
+1. Connect to OpenSearch Dashboards.
+2. Select 
+
+Viewing the list of plugins from the UI was introduced in OpenSearch Dashboards 2.7. Earlier versions do not have this feature.
+{: .note}
 
 ## Remove plugins
 
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 Then restart OpenSearch Dashboards. After you remove any plugin, OpenSearch Dashboards performs an optimize operation the next time you start it. This operation takes several minutes even on fast machines, so be patient.
 
-
-## Update plugins
+## Updating plugins
 
 OpenSearch Dashboards doesn’t update plugins. Instead, you have to remove the old version and its optimized bundle, reinstall them, and restart OpenSearch Dashboards:
 

_observing-your-data/ad/index.md

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 layout: default
 title: Anomaly detection
-nav_order: 90
+nav_order: 80
 has_children: true
 redirect_from:
   - /monitoring-plugins/ad/

_observing-your-data/notifications/index.md

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 layout: default
 title: Notifications
-nav_order: 80
+nav_order: 90
 has_children: true
 redirect_from:
   - /notifications-plugin/