Standalone plugin install

    Major, minor, and patch plugin versions must match OpenSearch major, minor, and patch versions in order to be compatible. For example, plugins versions 2.3.0.x work only with OpenSearch 2.3.0.

    Prerequisites

    • A compatible OpenSearch cluster
    • The corresponding OpenSearch plugins installed on that cluster
    • The corresponding version of (for example, OpenSearch Dashboards 2.1.0 works with OpenSearch 2.1.0)

    The following table lists available OpenSearch Dashboards plugins.

    Install

    Navigate to the OpenSearch Dashboards home directory (likely ) and run the install command for each plugin.

    To check your installed plugins:

    Remove plugins

    Then remove all associated entries from .

    For certain plugins, you must also remove the “optimze” bundle. This is a sample command for the Anomaly Detection plugin:

    Then restart OpenSearch Dashboards. After you remove any plugin, OpenSearch Dashboards performs an optimize operation the next time you start it. This operation takes several minutes even on fast machines, so be patient.

    OpenSearch Dashboards doesn’t update plugins. Instead, you have to remove the old version and its optimized bundle, reinstall them, and restart OpenSearch Dashboards:

    1. Remove the optimized bundle:

    2. Reinstall the new version:

    3. Restart OpenSearch Dashboards.

    For example, to remove and reinstall the anomaly detection plugin: