No longer able to set a default landing page using human readable names

[Rumbles]

Using kibana 5.6.3

I used to have the following in my kibana.yml:

kibana.defaultAppId: "dashboard/Default"

This no longer works, as kibana is expecting the ID of the dashboard, not the human readable name.

This is similar to the changes fixed on: #13359 as functionality that worked before has been broken by using IDs rather than human readable names.

In my use case, I had a number of servers in isolated environments, and each had it's config applied via salt, I then created a basic link on our intranet for users, imported in the dashboard (which now works again) and from that link kibana takes you to my default dashboard.

Without keeping track of all the IDs kibana uses for the dashboard, I cannot use this feature any more, which in turn makes the user experience worse.

I would appreciate some config option for the yml gile that allows me to set the default landing page by the human readable name I have given the dashboards, rather than relying on the ID.

[jbudz]

👍 . We're tracking this at #11338, I'm going to close this one so we can keep the discussion in one place.