Company
Date Published
Author
Matthias Polman-Wilhelm
Word count
1047
Language
English
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None

Summary

Discover in Kibana has evolved significantly, enhancing its usability and functionality for users exploring Elasticsearch data. Initially released as part of Kibana 4 and later updated with various improvements, the recent version 8.x introduces major features like an enhanced document table, field statistics, and search threshold alert creation. The new data table, powered by EuiDataGrid, allows users to adjust column widths, view images in tables through URL formatting, and sort by multiple fields more intuitively. Discover now provides a full-screen mode for focusing on data and offers the ability to manually filter and search documents in a flyout. Additionally, a new Field Statistics tool gives insights into data structure, such as top values and cardinality. Speed improvements have been achieved by splitting requests to Elasticsearch into separate tasks for document fetching and aggregated data, allowing quicker visibility of query results. Alerting capabilities have been expanded to help users receive notifications for important document ingestions, with a variety of alert actions available. Future updates aim to simplify querying by removing the need for predefined data views, allowing users to immediately query data patterns of interest.