Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for July 26th, 2019

In the weekly update for Kibana, significant progress was made across various aspects of the platform, including the ongoing development of the "copy-to-space" feature with API changes ready for review and improvements to Kerberos authentication within cloud environments. The New Platform migration advanced with the merging of the HTTP route handler RFC and near completion of the ContextService review, facilitating plugin registration for HTTP endpoints. Geo-maps enhancements included the integration of EMS vector tiles and new features like custom color ramps and "pew pew" maps for SIEM. The Lens visual editor received updates to support multiple chart types and embedding capabilities, while Elastic Charts focused on a shared API and state management improvements. Discover introduced a detailed shard failure error dialog, enhancing user feedback. EUI updates featured progress on Elastic Chart snippets and data grid components, aiming for an August release. The alerting service saw enhancements in error handling and API key support, alongside the introduction of a new built-in action for data indexing. Reporting efforts concentrated on improving pipeline familiarity and addressing user-reported bugs, while QA and test automation continued with visual testing and issue triaging.