OpenSearch Dashboards
OpenSearch Dashboards is an open-source data visualization and management tool, forked from Kibana, designed to provide a rich user interface for exploring, visualizing, and analyzing data stored in an OpenSearch cluster. It enables users to create interactive dashboards, monitor application…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2021
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- OpenSearch Dashboards was created to provide a fully open-source, Apache 2.0 licensed visualization and management tool for OpenSearch, enabling users to analyze, monitor, and explore large volumes of data without being subject to the restrictive commercial licensing terms introduced by Elastic NV for Kibana. It addressed the need for a community-driven, vendor-neutral alternative for data exploration and dashboarding.
- Platforms
- Linux, macOS, Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), Windows (primarily for development/testing, deployment typically on Linux servers)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Cloud service providers offering managed OpenSearch services
- Organizations migrating from Elastic Stack due to licensing
- Enterprises seeking a fully open-source data analytics platform
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers