Ability to specify arbitrary default app

[flash1293]

Currently Kibana offers the kibana.defaultAppId setting to specify the default app to load. However this just works for the "core" Kibana apps that are part of the kibana LP app (loaded under the path /app/kibana). AFAIK there is no way to load a different app (different /app/... path) by default without touching the code. When transitioning to the new platform, the kibana app housing multiple actual apps will go away. the kibana.defaultAppId setting should then be able to also load another app (like monitoring or apm) by default (maybe dropping the kibana. prefix of the config key).

@elastic/kibana-platform Is something like this planned already? I tagged platform because this feels like a platform feature, but feel free to change.

[pablotr9]

Hi @flash1293, isn't server.defaultRoute used for that purpose?
You can load an app on start by simply setting server.defaultRoute: /app/<app-name>.

[flash1293]

Hi @pablotr9, I didn’t know about this config key - I looked it up and it got removed in 7.5 in favor of a per-space advanced setting: #44678 Thanks for making me aware!

I think this feature covers all use cases so I will close things issue. The thing remaining is the deprecation of kibana.defaultAppId, but we should track that separately.