Setup Kibana Dashboard

This document outlines the steps required to create and configure health campaign dashboards in a different space within Kibana.

Pre-requisites:

• Knowledge of creating dashboards in Kibana. - Dashboard and visualizations

• Transformer and indexer services are up and running to enrich data for KPI creation and push data to elastic search.

Steps to Retrieve and decode the Kibana credentials:

1. Retrieve the Kibana Credentials Secret:

kubectl get secret elasticsearch-master-credentials -n es-cluster -o yaml

2. Decode the credentials:

To decode the username and password, include the following steps:

• Copy the base64 encoded values for username and password from the command output.

• Go to https://www.base64decode.org/.

• Paste the encoded values into the input box on the website.

• Click on the "Decode" button to get the plain text username and password.

Steps to Create and Configure Health Dashboards in Kibana

1. Access to Kibana:

• URL: {{HOST NAME}}/kibana

• Replace the {{HOST NAME}} with your domain URL.

2. Verify installation and services setup:

• Check the Kibana version through UI in the ‘Help’ section.

3. Create or select a space

• By default, users will have access to the default space.

• To create a new space or edit, open the main menu, then click Stack Management → Spaces for an overview of your spaces. This view provides actions to create, edit, and delete spaces.

• Switch to or create a new space where the dashboards will be configured.

4. Visualisation of data views and dashboards

• We have existing data views and dashboards from the product environment that you can import and use. To import existing data views, follow the steps below:

• Navigate to the “Stack Management” in the sidebar.

• Click on “Saved Objects” under Kibana.

• Import the data views file here. Data views contain the queries and charts needed to fetch data from the indexes. The file to be imported is given below:

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export.ndjson

• If you need to create your own data views, follow this guide: Creating Data Views in Kibana.

• All dashboards and data views will be imported here and can be viewed under “Saved Objects”.