Brian, you can create your own dashboards and link them into the ES app if that is where you want the app to live.
You will want to make sure if you create your dashboard in search or elsewhere that it has rights to be seen in ES. Once it has rights, you can navigate to Configure -> General -> Navigation and select the dashboard in the Unused Reports list on the left side of the screen and drop it into the Navigation of ES. It can be a top level dashboard, like Security Posture, or it could be nested farther down.
If you want to leverage a subset of already built dashboard panels that are already in ES and make a dashboard out of a few favorites, you can do that as well. The best way to do that in ES would be to go into the ES app, navigate to the Search drop down on the ES menu and select Dashboards. Select create new dashboard in the upper right corner and name it. It will open a dashboard that is blank, similar to what you would see in ArcSight. From there, click Add Panel and a list will appear on the right side of the screen. Expand the New from Report to leverage pre-built content from ES for panels, or Clone from Dashboard to pick specific panels from existing dashboards. Each panel would be analogous to a data monitor. If you want to create one from scratch, select New and start from there. For prebuilt content, when you select it, you will get a preview that describes the search and a button to Add to Dashboard.
Once you have the pieces you want to leverage, you can take these elements and modify them based on your specific requirements. You could change the searches to make tabular data into pie charts by adding counts, you could schedule them to run, you could add inputs on the dashboard to filter the underlying panels and clone the searches to customize them as you see fit.
Once you are ready to make this dashboard ready for viewing, you can add it to the ES menu, just like the first example, Configure->General->Navigation and drop it in where you want it seen.
Hope this helps.
