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[[drilldowns]]
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== Use drilldowns for dashboard actions
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Drilldowns, also known as custom actions, allow you to configure a
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workflow for analyzing and troubleshooting your data.
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Using a drilldown, you can navigate from one dashboard to another,
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taking the current time range, filters, and other parameters with you,
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so the context remains the same. You can continue your analysis from a new perspective.
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For example, you might have a dashboard that shows the overall status of multiple data centers.
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You can create a drilldown that navigates from this dashboard to a dashboard
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that shows a single data center or server.
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[float]
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[[how-drilldowns-work]]
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=== How drilldowns work
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Drilldowns are user-configurable {kib} actions that are stored with the
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dashboard metadata. Drilldowns are specific to the dashboard panel
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for which you create them—they are not shared across panels.
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A panel can have multiple drilldowns.
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This example shows a dashboard panel that contains a pie chart.
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Typically, clicking a pie slice applies the current filter.
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When a panel has a drilldown, clicking a pie slice opens a menu with
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the default action and your drilldowns. Refer to the <<drilldowns-example, Try it section>>
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for instructions on how to create this drilldown.
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[role="screenshot"]
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image::images/drilldown_on_piechart.gif[Drilldown on pie chart that navigates to another dashboard]
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Third-party developers can create drilldowns.
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Refer to https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/x-pack/examples/ui_actions_enhanced_examples[this example plugin]
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to learn how to code drilldowns.
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[float]
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[[create-manage-drilldowns]]
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=== Create and manage drilldowns
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Your dashboard must be in *Edit* mode to create a drilldown.
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Once a panel has at least one drilldown, the menu also includes a *Manage drilldowns* action
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for editing and deleting drilldowns.
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[role="screenshot"]
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image::images/drilldown_menu.png[Panel menu with Create drilldown and Manage drilldown actions]
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[float]
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[[drilldowns-example]]
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=== Try it: Create a drilldown
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This example shows how to create the *Host Overview* drilldown shown earlier in this doc.
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[float]
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==== Set up the dashboards
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. Add the <<get-data-in, sample web logs>> data set.
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. Create a new dashboard, called `Host Overview`, and include these visualizations
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from the sample data set:
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+
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[%hardbreaks]
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*[Logs] Heatmap*
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*[Logs] Visitors by OS*
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*[Logs] Host, Visits, and Bytes Table*
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*[Logs] Total Requests and Bytes*
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TIP: If you don’t see data for a panel, try changing the time range.
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. Open the *[Logs] Web traffic* dashboard.
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. Set a search and filter.
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[%hardbreaks]
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Search: `extension.keyword:( “gz” or “css” or “deb”)`
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Filter: `geo.src : CN`
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[float]
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==== Create the drilldown
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. In the dashboard menu bar, click *Edit*.
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. In *[Logs] Visitors by OS*, open the panel menu, and then select *Create drilldown*.
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. Give the drilldown a name.
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. Select *Host Overview* as the destination dashboard.
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. Keep both filters enabled so that the drilldown carries over the global filters and date range.
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Your input should look similar to this:
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[role="screenshot"]
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image::images/drilldown_create.png[Create drilldown with entries for drilldown name and destination]
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. Click *Create drilldown.*
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. Save the dashboard.
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If you don’t save the drilldown, and then navigate away, the drilldown is lost.
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. In *[Logs] Visitors by OS*, click the `win 8` slice of the pie, and then select the name of your drilldown.
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[role="screenshot"]
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image::images/drilldown_on_panel.png[Drilldown on pie chart that navigates to another dashboard]
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You are navigated to your destination dashboard. Verify that the search query, filters,
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and time range are carried over.
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