[Feature] custom links for clickable visualization elements

[mmguero]

Describe the solution you'd like

Enriching dashboards with on-the-fly lookups in other tools could be implemented by allowing the user to define custom URL templates for elements in visualizations (e.g., a value in a table or chart).

For example, a network traffic analysis tool could use this feature to configure an IP address or file hash field to provide a link to a VirusTotal IP lookup, port or protocol numbers to link to IANA, etc. I do something very similar to this in Arkime by defining value actions.

It would open up another level of customization to allow custom links/URLs/contexts/whatever you want to call it for OpenSearch Dashboards visualizations.

Describe alternatives you've considered

This is possible in other (Elastic-based) products:

• Inserting Links in Kibana Dashboards
• Custom drilldown links for a dashboard panel elastic/kibana#12560
• goodlabs-studio/kibana-plugin-drilldownmenu
• Arkime's Value Actions

[ahopp]

@mmguero Did you want to take a look at this issue (and associated design) and see if this meet you ask?

[mmguero]

@ahopp thanks for pointing me to those links! yes, i believe that feature (particularly the drill-down to external URLs, as mentioned here) would take care of what I'm trying to do. The bit in that comment about Select variable (optional) may be a little bit limiting: for me, if we could allow the user to pass both a variable/field as well as the currently-selected time range (e.g., start/stop query time frame with UNIX seconds/milliseconds or ISO format or whatever) would be best. I'll close this issue and comment on that one.