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title: Charmhub | Deploy Opensearch Dashboards using Charmhub - The Open Operator
  Collection
description: Deploy the latest version of Opensearch Dashboards on any cloud.
url: https://charmhub.io/opensearch-dashboards/docs/t-access
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# Opensearch Dashboards

[Canonical](https://charmhub.io/publisher/data-platform "View all packages from Canonical")

* [Canonical](https://charmhub.io/publisher/data-platform "View all packages from Canonical")

Platform:

24.04

22.04

2/stable 66

```
juju deploy opensearch-dashboards --channel 2/stable
```

[Learn to deploy on juju >](https://juju.is/docs/juju/manage-applications)

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# Access Opensearch Dashboards

Assuming that you have a virtual environment available (as described in Step 1.[Set up a virtual environment](https://charmhub.io/opensearch-dashboards/docs/t-set-up), open a browser and type there the following URL:

```
http://<dashboards_juju_public_address>:5601
```

The address of the unit is available in the juju status output of the opensearch-dashboards unit. For example, in the output from Step 2. [Deploy](https://charmhub.io/opensearch-dashboards/docs/t-deploy), this would be `10.163.9.173`.

You should see something like this:

## [Set up an Opensearch user](https://charmhub.io/opensearch-dashboards/docs/t-access#p-31583-set-up-an-opensearch-user)

Set up a user using the `data-integrator` [charm](https://charmhub.io/data-integrator).

At deployment time the Opensearch index (in the example: `index_name`) has to be specified as well. This is an arbitrary, alphanumerical identifier of the users’ data space in Opensearch.

User creation takes affect when integrated against the `opensearch` charm.

```
$ juju deploy data-integrator --config index-name=<intex_name>
$ juju integrate data-integrator opensearch
```

**Note:** this user will have normal privileges - meaning this user will only have access to the index it owns.

In case a broader access to the cluster’s indices is needed, it is possible to create an admin / privileged user as follows:

```
juju deploy data-integrator admin --config index-name=admin-index --config extra-user-roles="admin"
```

**Note:** Please only create admin users when extremely needed, and handle with special care as authenticating with an admin user grants full access to all indices in the cluster.

Retrieve user credentials running

```
juju run data-integrator/0 get-credentials
```

at the bottom of the output you should see something like:

```
  password: 8kubD7nbWYZFHPVEzIVmTyqV42I7wHb4
  <CA certificate here>
  username: opensearch-client_15
```

## [Create the “index pattern”](https://charmhub.io/opensearch-dashboards/docs/t-access#p-31583-create-the-index-pattern)

Log in to the Dashboard using these credentials. Clicking the top left icon the main menu will pull down. Select **Management** / **Dashboards Management** here

Select **Index patterns** on the next view:

Click on **create index pattern** at the bottom.

Adding the index name that used for `data-integrator` deployment (in our example: `testing`) as an index pattern enables Dashboard access to the user’s Opensearch space.

Click on the **Next step** button, and finalize the index pattern creation.

As a verification, the user’s index metadata will display.

## [Add and visualize data](https://charmhub.io/opensearch-dashboards/docs/t-access#p-31583-add-and-visualize-data)

For test purposes, a simple method could do. Like generating data from the command-line, via the Opensearch API:

```
for ID in `seq 1 100`
do
    curl -sk -u opensearch-client_15:8kubD7nbWYZFHPVEzIVmTyqV42I7wHb4 \
    -XPUT https://10.4.151.211:9200/testing/_doc/${ID} \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"test": "This is test ${ID}"}'
done
```

This is how raw data gets displayed in the Dashboard

## [Data Visualization](https://charmhub.io/opensearch-dashboards/docs/t-access#p-31583-data-visualization)

Opensearch Dashboards offers a variety of diagrams and data displays.

Choose **Dashboards** in the main left-side menu, and you will be presented to the selection:

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