overload on-click event in kibana dashboards embedded in iframes

Question

I am new to Kibana and just discovered that I can easily embed Kibana dashboards into iframes to include in separate webpages.

I would like to be able to click on specific panels inside the dashboard and bring up separate windows where I would display analogous splunk querys.

Is it possible to override the on-click event in the kibana dashboard to add this behavior.

The documentation I have found for kibana is a bit cursory so I would also appreciate any resources you can send my way.

Answer 1

There is no way to override the on-click event in the kibana dashboard, but the project is open-source so you could definitely create a version that behaves this way.

Kibana 4 development is explained in the CONTRIBUTING.md at the root of the github repository. I recommend you start there.

Those directions explain the following in more detail:

1. setting up your development environment
   • install node.js and git
   • check out the kibana repo
   • run npm install to install dependencies
2. running Kibana in "dev" mode with ./node_modules/.bin/grunt dev
   • in dev mode your updates are immediately available in the browser
3. building distributable packages with ./node_modules/.bin/grunt build

The part of Kibana that you will likely want to modify or extend is the dashboard app's panel directive.

Hope that helps!