URL drilldown settings in Kibana

Configure the URL drilldown settings in your kibana.yml configuration file.

General settings

externalUrl.policy

Supported on: Self-managed deployments are Elastic Stack deployments managed without the assistance of an orchestrator. Availability Generally available This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Configures the external URL policies. URL drilldowns respect the global External URL service, which you can use to deny or allow external URLs. By default all external URLs are allowed.

Datatype: string

For example, to allow only external URLs to the example.com domain with the https scheme, except for the danger.example.com sub-domain, which is denied even when https scheme is used:

externalUrl.policy:
  - allow: false
    host: danger.example.com
  - allow: true
    host: example.com
    protocol: https