Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for Nov 26th, 2018
Blog post from Elastic
The weekly update for Kibana, dated December 7, 2018, highlights several key developments and ongoing projects. The team continues to progress on granular application privileges, opting for a new approach to assigning Kibana privileges alongside roles for effective cluster/index privileges. The Alerting Service is being redesigned to support pluggable actions and multiple alert types, akin to ElastAlerts, with ongoing work on defining pluggable actions. The Geo GIS App has seen improvements, including test coverage enhancements, Web Map Service support, and new join editor for choropleth mapping. Canvas now supports global CSS overrides, and there is a detailed example of using SQL with Canvas to compute percentages of delivered products. The update also mentions design changes, including TypeScript support in EUI, navigation changes, and the development of the Super Date Picker component. Reporting enhancements involve resolving issues, improving logging and error handling, and creating documentation for multiple .kibana indices configuration. Additionally, the update covers bug fixes, changes in the platform, and operations like extending pre-commit hook scripts and optimizer cache invalidation.