Access the OpenSearch Service dashboard

The solution sends the metadata to OpenSearch Service. The solution provides a proxy to access the OpenSearch Service dashboard. To access the proxy securely, the solution uses AWS Systems Manager and tunnel to the instance and leverage port-forwarding to the dashboard.

Note

To use this feature, you must have the AWS Systems Manager CLI extension installed.

Complete the following instructions to access the OpenSearch Service dashboard.

1. Obtain the proxy instance name, either by using the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI.

   • Using the AWS Management Console:*

     1. Sign in to the Amazon EC2 console.

     2. Choose Instances from the navigation menu.

     3. Find and copy the instance name that starts with addf-aws-solutions.

   Using the AWS CLI:

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   $ aws ec2 describe-instances \
    --filter "Name=tag:Name,Values=addf-aws-solutions-integration- opensearch-tunnel/OSTunnel" \
    --query "Reservations[].Instances[?State.Name == 'running'].InstanceId[]" \
    --output text

2. Establish a tunnel by using the AWS CLI. This solution defaults the port to 3333.

   The following is an example where you replace <instance-name> with the instance name:

   $ aws ssm start-session --target <instance-name> \
    --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession \
    --parameters '{"portNumber": ["3333"], "localPortNumber": ["3333"]}'

   The following is an example where the instance name is i-123456789c45166cb:

   $ aws ssm start-session --target i-123456789c45166cb \
    --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession \
    --parameters '{"portNumber": ["3333"], "localPortNumber": ["3333"]}'

3. Use the following URL to open the dashboard: http://localhost:3333/_dashboards. This securely tunnels to the OpenSearch Service dashboard.

4. Add a new filter to discover your data. The partitions begin with rosbag, so we recommend selecting rosbag-* as a starting filter.

Example OpenSearch dashboard displaying indexed roasbag data.