Company
Date Published
Author
Tim Schnell
Word count
855
Language
-
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Kibana's development update from November 22, 2019, highlights ongoing efforts to stabilize cloud testing, enhance security features, and migrate plugins and APIs to the New Platform. The team focused on addressing cloud test failures, expanding SaaS configurations on Azure and GCP, and improving alerting by supporting saved-object supertypes. Platform advancements include the introduction of Licensing APIs and config field whitelisting for client-side exposure, alongside UI updates supporting various frameworks. Telemetry saw new endpoint deployments and progress toward full migration under the UsageCollection plugin. Reporting efforts included transitioning export types to TypeScript and preparing Telemetry opt-in features for version 7.5. Alerting development involved activity log enhancements, alert tagging, and task management improvements, while Kibana App focused on integrating Elastic Charts and updating Kibana to TypeScript 3.7. The Maps team provided a tool for ingesting geospatial data into Elasticsearch, and design initiatives aimed at refining alerting wireframes and dashboard usability, alongside evaluating security's Role Mapping feature.