Kibana updates from platform, security, discover data grid

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</p><h2><strong>We are Hiring!</strong></h2><ul>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/24ddf24d1">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/a12f57d31">Kibana - Platform JavaScript Engineer (Node.js)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/cf4410401">Kibana - Principal Product Manager Maps</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/distributed-global/kibana-senior-product-manager-telemetry-insights/2107398?rid=07a8c01b53c7e860ab261373187452bb#/">Kibana - Senior Product Manager, Telemetry & Insights</a></li>
</ul> <strong><strong> <strong><h2></h2></strong> <strong><h2>Data Grid in Discover is coming soon</h2></strong></strong></strong><p>We are hard at work converting Discover’s result tables to EuiDataGrid grid component. The changes will result in a slight layout change to the overall app and it’s going to feel a little more Lens-like in its presentation. It will also address a bunch of improvements that users have been asking for and position us for further enhancements. There’s still a lot of work to be done on this one, but the goal is to get a working version soon. &nbsp;You can follow along on<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51531"> this PR</a>.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt35a51f1d1c743930/5e66c5ff0b6249392652cf43/Screen_2520Recording_25202020-02-28_2520at_252008.06_2520AM.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt35a51f1d1c743930" alt="Screen_2520Recording_25202020-02-28_2520at_252008.06_2520AM.gif">
</p><strong><h2>Query cancellation </h2></strong><p>Team has been working on incorporating query cancellation and asynchronous search capabilities into Kibana. This week we added the new <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/53057">asynchronous search strategy</a> to the Search Service.&nbsp; It sends the first request as given (with all request parameters), and expects to receive an id in the response, which it then uses to poll the same backend endpoint until the response indicates that it is complete by sending a loaded property that is equal to the total property. This prepares us to allow triggering of async search requests once ES backend is ready.
</p><p>We have also merged a fix that ensures that search requests (using the search service or KQL value suggestions) that initiate client-side and are then disconnected, <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/56788">will now close the upstream connection to Elasticsearch</a>. This signals Elasticsearch to clean up any tasks associated with the originating search request.
</p><p>The new Search Service <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/59224">now supports frozen indices and rollups</a>. This service is <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/58990">now used for all search requests</a> and the use of <code>EsClient</code> has been eliminated. The server-side search endpoint <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/59341">is now using the new search strategy</a> as well.
</p><h2>Kibana Platform&nbsp;</h2><h3>Most recent changes for Kibana users:</h3><ul "="">
	<li>Upgrading Kibana will no longer fail if a Elasticsearch snapshot is in progress during the upgrade (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/58884">#58884</a>)</li>
	<li>We deprecated support for the `kibana_user` and `kibana_dashboard_only_user` roles in 7.6, with plans to remove them in 8.0. This week, we gave these deprecated roles special treatment in the UI, so Kibana administrators will have a heads-up when they attempt to assign these roles to their users (<span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/57209" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/57209&source=gmail&ust=1583878225078000&usg=AFQjCNHLMShVl0pxq4t0vKlOZh81WiZZuA">#57209</a>)</span><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt72fb5ba1821b0663/5e66c7194e03445d41fad0b1/pasted_image_0.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt72fb5ba1821b0663" alt="pasted_image_0.png"></li>
</ul><h3>For&nbsp;plugin developers:
</h3><ul "="">
	<li "="">Platform plugins may now register their SavedObject types (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/57430">#57430</a>), mappings, and migrations! This required many internal changes&nbsp;and unblocks the final most common blocker to completing the migration to the frontend.&nbsp;</li>
	<li "="">A change to how UI applications in the Platform must integrate with the global router on the frontend. (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/56705">#56705</a>). This will require (small) changes from all plugin teams in order to fix a few routing bugs. Please see the before & after in the PR above for an example.</li>
	<li "="">HTTP routes may now specify optional authentication (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/58589">#58589</a>)&nbsp;</li>
	<li "="">HTTP routes may now opt-out of XSRF protection (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/58717">#58717</a>)&nbsp;</li>
	<li "="">A new API for internal metrics about the Kibana server is now available (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/59294" "="">#59294</a>)&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

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Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for March 6th, 2020

Kibana updates from platform migration, maps embedding in Canvas and categorical color styling

<p><span id="m_-6462449464826262286gmail-docs-internal-guid-7e01c01e-7fff-c91a-6ddd-8d71a30074a4" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span>
</p><h2>Maps can now be embedded in Canvas<br></h2><p><br>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The ability to embed maps in Canvas was merged this week for release in 7.6. We expect to continue working on adding additional visualization types as embeddables into Canvas over the next few months.</span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br>
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt52cd609cd8ec7ebe/5e289ef02aa8e40a75137d39/image4.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt52cd609cd8ec7ebe" alt="image4.png">
</p><p><br>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span>
</p><h2 dir="ltr">Speaking of Maps: Categorical styling of colors
</h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong><br></strong></span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are very excited that Maps will in 7.6 allow </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Categorical Styling of Color</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.&nbsp; It’s a highly requested and significant feature.&nbsp; In this first iteration string fields can be matched to a color. </span><span id="m_-6462449464826262286gmail-docs-internal-guid-7e01c01e-7fff-c91a-6ddd-8d71a30074a4" style="background-color: initial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See </span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54408" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54408&source=gmail&ust=1579742953829000&usg=AFQjCNHl9-xfgwsLwPWDYqKRxwRY3SEvOg"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#54408</span></a></span><span style="background-color: initial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>
</p><p><br>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The user can choose a default palette ...</span>
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltd7d9f43ac1bd4169/5e289f24bad1555533de7076/image3.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltd7d9f43ac1bd4169" alt="image3.png">
</p><p><br>
</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">...or a custom one</span><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltd035938b0e7b5f8c/5e289f75e2b3975498eaf751/image6.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltd035938b0e7b5f8c" alt="image6.png">
</p><p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span>
</p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kibana Platform: changes for Kibana plugin developers<br></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">We’ve introduced the `getStartServices()` API to the server-side (</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/55156" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/55156&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNE_SXaO7x0nKm4YCDRZ8icBygL8gA"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">#55156</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">). This mirrors the client-side API to enable plugins to access start contracts from setup functions. This should only be needed in some areas and we expect to continue to use request context for most usecases.</span></li>
	<li dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Plugin IDs must now be in camelCase format. A&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/53759" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/53759&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNETu76m3OvSzNCIiQL6YQ38QfzLBg"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">PR was merged</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;to enforce this convention automatically.</span></li>
</ul><p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span>
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">We’ve fixed a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54550" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54550&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNGSc1KYOoHFAnii-5AdNSlk5etGjQ"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">number</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54691" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54691&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNEiu_FNGZDG2Eo1juDP3X_YTLTwIw"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">of</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54768" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54768&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNHaJGEyaE8OpmZy3dGZfNFi4yoNdA"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">bugs</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;in the application service. This should unblock a few plugins from beginning their UI code migration.</span></li>
	<li dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">For batching requests and streaming responses, the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">bfetch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;plugin is&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/53711" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/53711&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNFpRrDTgYH_OWn18W23cjCO739lPw"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">now available</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;in the Kibana platform (formerly&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">ajax_stream</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">batched_fetch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;in legacy Kibana).</span></li>
	<li dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">We&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54539" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54539&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNFhTFz7GAtwP19DbARilhPTPzfITA"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">added support</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;for the “Deprecated” label in advanced settings.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">courier:batchSearches</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;is the first example of a deprecated setting.</span></li>
	<li dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Expressions plugin&nbsp;</span><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54788" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/54788&source=gmail&ust=1579742953828000&usg=AFQjCNFOTU3aTRfEeJXxNZ2UCcYhexLOPA"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">now supports</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;interpreter handlers that contain a list of variables.</span></li>
</ul><p>Until next time,</p><p>Kibana Team</p>

Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for January 20th, 2020

Kibana updates from platform migration, maps, security, design, and more!

<h1>Recent changes in Kibana</h1> <h2>Security<br></h2><p>In a slight deviation from our normal responsibilities, we merged a <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/43548">PR</a> which allows Kibana to be instrumented with APM.&nbsp;&nbsp;
</p><p>Other changes this week include&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51431">clean-up our use of deprecated Node.js APIs</a>. Future usage of deprecated APIs will throw an error.
</p><h2>Platform</h2><p>New APIs:
</p><ul>
	<li>“uiCapabilities” can now be registered in New Platform Plugins (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51438">#51438</a>)</li>
	<li>Some shared configuration options that are applicable to many plugins can now be accessed by New Platform plugins (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51478">#51478</a>)</li>
</ul><p>Fixes:
</p><ul>
	<li>Configuration is now validated before migrations are run (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51880">#51880</a>)</li>
</ul><h2>Stack Services</h2> <h3>Alerting (Make It Action)</h3><p>Enabled KQL nested queries on saved objects: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/51637">#51637</a>. This will allow me to add an "Action Type" filter on the alerts list UI.&nbsp; Also finished the denormalize actionTypeId PR to support filtering alerts by action type (server side only): <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51628">#51628</a>&nbsp;. Merged PR email action whitelisting <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52221">#52221</a> and moving action description to&nbsp; name <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51661">#51661</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
</p> <h2>App Architecture<br></h2> <h4>Migration</h4><p>This week we worked on the following items for Kibana Platform migration:
</p><ul>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52156">Apply filters action</a></li>
	<li>State management (#<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52384">52384</a>, #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52280">52280</a>, #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52172">52172</a>, #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51835">51835</a>)</li>
	<li><code>ui/courier</code> exports <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52037">cleanup</a></li> <code>
	<li><code><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51873">QueryStringInput</a></code></li></code>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51872">Replace</a> <code>StaticIndexPattern</code> with the new <code>IIndexPattern</code></li>
</ul> <h4>Embeddables</h4><p>Embeddable input now has <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51975"><code>disabledActions</code></a> property. Actions with ID listed in <code>disabledActions</code> will not be rendered by embeddable panel in drop down context menu and badge list.
</p> <h4>Bug Fixes</h4><p>A couple of high priority bugs got fixed this week:
</p><ul>
	<li>#<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52370">52370</a></li>
	<li>#<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/52109">52109</a></li>
</ul> <h2>Kibana App (Visualizations, Discover, Dashboard, Graph, Elastic Charts & More)</h2> <h3>Elastic-Charts</h3><ul>
	<li>We're finishing up the first version of pie charts in Elastic Charts (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/463">elastic-charts#463</a>).&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Merged the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/419">refactoring of series identifiers</a>. With this change, it is possible to hide&nbsp;legend and other chart components. Note a breaking change: GeometryId is now SeriesIdentifier.&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Configured Dependabot to automatically update dependencies in the repo.</li>
</ul> <h3>Migration</h3><ul>
	<li>The saved_objects clientside services are currently migrated and undergoing a larger refactoring for Kibana platform.</li>
	<li>Started to implement an alternative to the saved_object inheritance to a functional approach&nbsp;</li>
	<li>Removed unused server side APIs: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/50881">#50881</a></li>
</ul> <h3>Misc:<br></h3><ul>
	<li>EUI now has published <a href="https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/guidelines/accessibility">Accessibility Guidelines</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul> <h2>Maps</h2><p>Prior to 7.6, Elastic Maps used locally retrieved data to calculate symbolization bands for color ramps, icon size, and other data driven styling. Each data pull would re-calculate symbolization bands causing inconsistent symbolization as users panned, zoomed, and filtered their map. In the example below, notice how the color and size symbolization change for the document as the user zooms out.&nbsp;
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt72066acf4d4c9223/5defdd585f0d0b37d5950e5a/map_before.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt72066acf4d4c9223" alt="map_before.png">
</p><p>Now, Elastic Maps uses an extended_stats aggregation to retrieve statistical metadata about styling fields. This statistical metadata is used to calculate symbolization bands. This way, symbolization is consistent as users pan, zoom, and filter their map. In the example below, notice how the color and size symbolization remain constant for the document as the user zooms out.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt6432be8a6d0a87dd/5defdd6c5885d57e9b847ef3/map_after.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt6432be8a6d0a87dd" alt="map_after.png">
</p><p>Using extended_stats has the added benefit of using the statistical properties of the data set to minimize outliers that can skew symbolization bands towards extremely large or extremely small values.
</p><p>Users have the ability to configure the standard deviation bounds and disable this feature to go back to styling by locally retrieved data. All Elastic Map saved objects created prior to 7.6 will have this feature disabled by default so user’s maps will not change behavior while upgrading. All new Elastic Map saved objects created after 7.6 will have this feature turned on by default.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt1c7cdbc414b5d426/5defdda68c8da537d52c3a6b/map_options.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt1c7cdbc414b5d426" alt="map_options.png">
</p><h2>Canvas</h2><p>Closed Canvas PRs for the week.&nbsp; <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aclosed+closed%3A2019-12-02..2019-12-09+label%3ATeam%3ACanvas+">Follow along here</a>.
</p> <h3>Design</h3> <h4>EuiBasicTable converted to Typescript</h4><p><a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/2428">This started as a community contribution</a>, but took awhile to make its way to master because of all the testing involved. This is one of the last major components left in EUI that wasn’t fully written in TypeScript.
</p> <h4>DataGrid additions</h4><p><a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/2594">DataGrid now allows for the creation of extra toolbar items</a>
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt1dafea6793e6a3ca/5defddfa6ac09b386d5651d1/datagrid1.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt1dafea6793e6a3ca" alt="datagrid1.png">
</p><h4><br></h4><h2>Operations</h2><ul>
	<li>CI updates to PR’s are now aggregated into a single comment, reducing the noise. See <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/51504">#51504</a></li>
</ul> <h3><br></h3><h4></h4>

Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for December 6th, 2019

Lens visualization is now available; we are continuing to migrate to the new platform; Graph getting started experience improvements and more!

<p><strong></strong>
</p><h2><strong>Kibana UI Update</strong></h2> <strong><h3>Hiring</h3></strong><ul>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/24ddf24d1"><strong>Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</strong></a></li>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/a12f57d31"><strong>Kibana - Platform JavaScript Engineer (Node.js)</strong></a></li> <strong><a href="https://grnh.se/7f51db4a1">
	</a><li><strong><strong><a href="https://grnh.se/7f51db4a1">Kibana - Visualisations Engineer</a></strong></strong></li></strong>
</ul> <strong><h3>This week's highlight:&nbsp;new Lens visualization is coming!</h3></strong><p>Lens has been merged! You can now see Lens visualization type in Visualize app on master and 7.x. We are continuing to work on bug fixes and small improvements in preparation for Beta, but would love for you to try it out and send us your feedback!
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltcd5883a47968ebcb/5d8a92aba3629438cf51ec8f/lens_preview.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="bltcd5883a47968ebcb" alt="lens_preview.gif">
</p> <strong><h3></h3></strong> <strong><h3><br></h3><h3>Security</h3></strong> <strong><h4>Space specific default routes</h4></strong><p>The <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45382">prerequisite PR</a> which migrates portions of the Spaces plugin to the new platform merged last week. This makes the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/44678">actual implementation</a> much easier, which we’ll be focusing on this week.
</p> <strong><h4>SAML redirect and hash based routing</h4></strong><p>The changes have been made to no longer rely upon RelayState for this feature, and the configurable URL length limits have been implemented. The <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/44513">PR</a> is ready for the next round of reviews this week.&nbsp;
</p> <strong><h3>Platform</h3></strong><p>This week we completed nearly all of our blocker audits with plugin teams. We have a couple left to tie up this week and are primarily focused on execution now. So far, we have not identified any pressing new blockers that were previously unknown, which is good.
</p><p>This week we completed <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/43610">migrating the global banner UI</a> to the New Platform. We also fixed a <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/46167">couple</a> <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45918">bugs</a> in the New Platform. This week, work is expected to complete on migrating the SavedObjectClient on the server and the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/44922">licensing plugin on the client</a>.
</p><p>For the New Platform migration, 7 PRs were merged by plugin teams this week, 6 by the App Arch team and 1 by the Security team.
</p><h3>Geo-Maps App<br></h3><p>Maps now cancels out-dated Elasticsearch requests when users change search criteria, remove a layer, or leave the map before existing requests resolve.
</p><p>Migrated tooltips from Mapbox tooltips to EuiPopover. This is useful for embedded maps. Mapbox tooltips are constrained to the bounds of the panel while EuiPopovers are only constrained to the bounds of the screen, allowing tooltips to expand outside of small embedded panels.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt1dd4884c701c5fba/5d8a93608a24c40d20cca0ab/map_tooltips.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt1dd4884c701c5fba" alt="map_tooltips.png">
</p><h3>Geo-Elastic Maps Service</h3><p>We continue to curate and test subdivision boundaries of Eastern European countries. Currently in review are subdivisions for Serbia and Montenegro.&nbsp;</p> <strong><h3>App Architecture</h3></strong> <strong><h4>New Platform Migration<br></h4></strong><p>We made <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45532">progress</a> on <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45498">moving</a> filter, time filter, and query services to the new platform. <code>agg_config</code> and <code>agg_configs</code> were <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45877">moved</a> to <code>agg_types</code> in preparation for the final move to data plugin.&nbsp; We also worked on refactoring <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45874">visualization</a> <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45869">types</a>.
</p> <strong><h3>Kibana App (Visualizations, Sharing, Discover, Reporting)</h3></strong> <strong><h4>Lens</h4></strong><p>We merged Lens into master and 7.x!
</p> <strong><h4>Elastic Charts</h4></strong><p>It’s now safe to call a React re-render on <a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/376">onBrushEnd events</a>. We added the possibility to hide duplicate axes created by the user based on ticks labels, position and axis title.
</p><p>On version 13.0.0 we also introduced a small <strong>breaking change</strong>, on the Theme type, introducing the <code>visibility</code> property on the <code>tickLineStyle</code> them property (see <a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/374">#374</a> for details).
</p><p>We keep working on the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/281">refactoring</a> of the library removing MobX state manager in favour of Redux (to align with other existing products and apps and to clean and improve the current data processing flow).
</p><p>We made progress on the pie chart implementation. Now the slice labelling is in good shape, we are working on adding more test coverage.We will finally integrate this work when the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/281">refactoring and the new chart type API</a> is merged.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt498dd88600e965a3/5d8a93aab67b660d1bee2108/chart_preview.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt498dd88600e965a3" alt="chart_preview.png">
</p><strong><h4>Graph</h4></strong><p>Last week de-angularization of the search bar <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45351">#45351</a> including KQL support <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45364">#45364</a> was merged along with minor cleanups and restructurings <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45770">#45770</a> <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45782">#45782</a>. Graph now also has a readme that explains the setup and most commonly used commands.
</p><p>De-angularization of the field manager <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45384">#45384</a> and a new welcome screen when no workspace is configured <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45547">#45547</a> are currently in progress - thanks a lot for the input from the design team!.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blta2d5e472b826d7ba/5d8a93d32d73960d2a506ecf/graph_getting_started.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blta2d5e472b826d7ba" alt="graph_getting_started.png">
</p><strong><h4>Discover</h4></strong><p>De-angularization of the doc view was merged <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/44660">#44660</a>. With the merge of <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/44212">#44212</a> sorting by time field when indices mix the format <strong>date</strong> and <strong>date_nanos </strong>works correctly. Currently in the works: De-angularizing the left side panel. And there’s a&nbsp; brand new slack channel: #kibana-discover
</p> <strong><h3>Canvas</h3></strong><p>The Canvas team is still heads down working on adding localization to the entire Canvas app.&nbsp;&nbsp;<span></span></p><strong><h3>Design</h3></strong> <strong><h4>Accessibility</h4></strong><p>Accessibility is always a focus for us and we have created a video around building and testing for accessibility with EUI.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDXoEe8NkrE&feature=youtu.be">Available here.</a>
</p> <strong><h4>EUI Data Grid</h4></strong><p>EuiDataGrid can now detect schema types and auto-applies formatting rules based on that. It can also be given styles on a per-cell basis.
</p><p>There is also progress around selecting and viewing a cell’s content.&nbsp; The format of the popover will match the schema of the content for the cell, allowing for longer content and better readability.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt1ac9697f5192bce5/5d8a945d27cc7a38ca73743c/data_grid.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt1ac9697f5192bce5" alt="data_grid.png">
</p> <strong><h4>Maps + Compressed Forms</h4></strong><p>The Maps application received the newly merged compressed forms to make for a clear and super slick UI.
</p><strong><h4>Dashboard workflow</h4></strong><p>We’re exploring ways to tighten up the workflow between the Dashboard and the growing number of applications that provide content for dashboards (Visualize, Lens, Maps, etc).
</p><strong><h4>Color Stops component</h4></strong><p>The Color Stops component received some more attention recently and is becoming more and more polished.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt3d9abe2e7d5f2e72/5d8a947ff0e07b2dd96a5100/color_stops_component.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt3d9abe2e7d5f2e72" alt="color_stops_component.png">
</p><strong><h3>Stack Services</h3></strong> <strong><h4>Alerting</h4></strong><p>We built a performance improvement into Task Manager parallelizing the way in which Task Manager claims ownership of tasks.&nbsp; He ran a performance assessment of this improvement, measuring a marked improvement in task performance, but not quite as good as we need for alerting.&nbsp; He is now working on an alternative approach based off of Mike's past work on the subject.&nbsp; Mike merged throttling support for alerts: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41919">#41919</a>
</p><p>He also added an API to update API key (change ownership): <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45925">#45925</a>
</p><p>The "alertId" and "alertInstanceId" properties are now accessible in templated alert action params in&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45803">#45803</a>.&nbsp; New tests testing access across spaces have been put in place: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45892">#45892</a>.&nbsp;A new discuss issue for alert muting is created: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/46034">#46034</a>.&nbsp; Patrick continued work on the event log in&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/45083">#45083</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/45081">#45081</a>.
</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>That's all for this week.<br>
	- Kibana team
</p>

Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for September 23rd, 2019

Good progress on features and enhancements: New platform, Alerting, Security, Lens, and EUI.

<p>Welcome to Kibana UI Weekly&nbsp;Update! <br>
</p><h4>We are hiring!</h4><ul>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/01f01f5c1">Kibana Applications Security Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/24ddf24d1">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/a12f57d31">Kibana - Platform JavaScript Engineer (Node.js)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/distributed-amer-or-western-europe/director-sr-director-product-management-kibana/1571633#/">Director / Sr Director Product Management - Kibana</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://grnh.se/7f51db4a1">Kibana - Visualisations Engineer</a></li>
</ul><p><br></p><h3>Security</h3><h4>Copy to Space<br></h4><p>The PR to make the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41688">spaces saved object type hidden</a>, which allows the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38014">copy to space API</a> to explicitly specify the namespace merged this week. We’re continuing to work with design on <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/39002">the UI for copy to space</a> and we’re getting close!
</p><h4>Allow individual privileges to be excluded from base privileges
</h4><p>The Code application consumes Kibana resources in a rather unprecedented manner. As such, we’re considering limiting the users which are able to clone Code repos. To enable this pattern, we began working on adding <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42470">the ability for individual privileges to be excluded from the base privileges</a>. This will enable us to grant read-only access to Code with the “all” base privilege.
</p><h3>Platform&nbsp;</h3><p>The HttpService saw a lot of progress this week. The <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41894">new route handler interface</a> has been merged, and PRs are in review for <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42331">comprehensive documentation</a> and some <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42442">API polish for consistency</a>. We’re getting very close to being able to open up these APIs to plugin developers.
</p><p>The <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/39891">SavedObjectsClient for the browser</a> in review and should be merged next week.&nbsp;
</p><p>This week we also merged <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41251">the ContextService</a> to support more ergonomic access to Core services inside asynchronous handlers. This is a fundamental building block in the New Platform design and unblocks the AppService and HttpService. The AppService is nearing completion and final testing before PR review.
</p><h3>Operations</h3><p>Last week we advanced the static fs in several fields. We are now returning the files and the base folders added as well as the possibility to declare exclusions on generation. Additionally we have also fixed a bug that prevented us from read from a relative path inside the static filesystem.&nbsp;
</p><h3>App Architecture</h3><h4>Data Access Services
</h4><p>We merged a final implementation of the POC to <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/40238">make expressions cancelable</a> by adding a new handler in the interpreter. This will be an important feature as we work toward implementing query cancellation more broadly.
</p><h4>New Platform Migration
</h4><p>We've <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42164">TypeScriptified and moved Inspector to the New Platform “inspector” plugin</a>, which is now our second stateful New Platform plugin 🎉 We also&nbsp;handled some much-needed <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42238">cleanup to the data plugin</a>, which brings it in line with the conventions we recommend in <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/core/MIGRATION.md">the migration guide</a>, and also took some time for <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41638">more Angular cleanup</a>.
</p><p>We're still pushing forward on shimming vis types. RIght now <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42348">tag cloud</a>, <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42240">metric vis</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/39169">TSVB</a> are all in the final stages of review & expected to merge very soon.
</p><p>Lastly, we added some <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42261">Karma mocks for new platform services</a>, beginning with the data plugin. A <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42302">PR has been opened against the migration guide</a> with more background on these mocks, and how they differ from the existing new platform jest mocks.
</p><h3>Kibana App (Visualizations, Sharing, Discover, Reporting)</h3><h4>Lens (New visual editor)</h4><p>The biggest work this week was on:
</p><ul>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41784">Performance improvements (merged)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42093">Chart switching (merged)</a></li>
	<li>Filter bar and time picker (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42031">in progress</a>)</li>
	<li>Better suggestion logic (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42052">merged</a>, <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42344">open</a>, <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42537">open</a>)</li>
</ul><p>Our chart switcher is now much more graphical, and is able to indicate when users are losing data:
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt8057cbb9b1a61ac8/5d49c4f2302f4743540141ef/lens_chart_switching.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt8057cbb9b1a61ac8" alt="lens_chart_switching.png">&nbsp;<br>
</p><h4>Discover
</h4><p>Fine tuned&nbsp;feedback to PR<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41918"> #41918</a>. Et voilá, we’ve merged a long requested feature, sorting on multiple columns (151<a href="https://emojipedia.org/thumbs-up-sign/">👍</a>). Furthermore we found a way to deangularize DocViewer without locking out 3rd party plugins still using Angular for now, ongoing PR <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42116">#42116</a>.&nbsp;
</p><h3>Design</h3><h4>Eui Data Grid
</h4><p>This week saw major progress on EUI data grid, our upcoming component for managing large sets of tabular results. We landed three big PRs into our feature branch: one that <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/2187">added basic aria-controls</a> and accessibility, one that <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/2165">added pagination</a> and one that set up some <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/2176">initial customizable styling</a>. This week we hope to get some toolbar like management for common actions. Target is still to get this in people’s hands by the end of the month.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt7bf0459bef1fefb7/5d49c4d2302f4743540141e9/table_component.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt7bf0459bef1fefb7" alt="table_component.gif">
</p><h4>Elastic Charts in EUI docs
</h4><p>This one's been a back-burner project for us, but we’re making good progress on getting snippets and documentation into EUI for how to best utilize Elastic Charts. This should give folks some best practices for styling beautiful visualizations.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt606ec20f81c03505/5d49c4c25c5bf77f34eb813d/chart_design.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt606ec20f81c03505" alt="chart_design.gif">
</p><h3>Stack Services
</h3><h4>Alerting<br></h4><p>A bunch of cleanup, bug fixing and cleanup of the alerting code. See <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41933">#41933</a>; <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42273">#42273</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42393">#42393</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/42493">#42493</a>;&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41917">#41917</a>
</p><p>Security plugin now has the ability to create API keys <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/41389">#41389</a>. This will be used for executing requests on behalf of a user in alerting when we don’t have the user’s request to authenticate to Elasticsearch.
</p><p><br>
</p><p>That's all for this week. <br>
	Until next time, <br>
	Kibana Team
</p>

Keeping up with Kibana: August 2nd, 2019 edition

Lots of good progress on some exciting new features: security, canvas, lens, elastic charts

<h2>Hiring<br></h2>
<ul> <li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/distributed/kibana-application-security-engineer/1470408">Kibana Applications Security Engineer</a></li> <li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/distributed/kibana-visualisations-vega-engineer/1418186">Kibana - Visualisations & Vega Engineer</a></li> <li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/anywhere-/kibana-gis-data-engineer/1569367">Kibana - GIS Data Engineer</a></li> <li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/distributed/kibana-senior-javascript-engineer/1143849">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a></li> <li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/distributed-global/kibana-senior-software-engineer-operations/1595759">Kibana - Senior Software Engineer - Operations</a></li> <li><a href="https://jobs.elastic.co/jobs/kibana/distributed/kibana-platform-javascript-engineer-node-js-/1292795">Kibana - Platform JavaScript Engineer (Node.js)</a></li> </ul>
<h2>Security</h2>
<h3>Feature Control </h3>
<p>Copy Saved Objects to Spaces<br></p>
<p>Following last week’s exploratory efforts, we’ve continued working on the prerequisite changes to enable this feature: </p>
<ul> <li>Merged <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38461">#38461</a>: simplifying saved objects management UI capabilities</li> <li>Started <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38444">#38444</a>: reordering saved objects client wrappers</li> </ul>
<h3>New Platform Migration </h3>
<p>We’ve continued working on migrating the security plugin’s authentication to the new platform. We’re tracking the required dependencies in <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/33775">#33775</a>. Work also continued on the migrating of the Spaces plugin to the new platform, and shimming out all dependencies as specified in the migration guide: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/35429">#35429</a> </p>
<h3>Content Security Policy </h3>
<p>The end-goal of CSP is to get rid of all usages of `unsafe-eval`. To aide in this effort, we’d like to ensure that we don’t continue to add usages of unsafe-eval. We began exploring the feasibility of the approach outlined in <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/36311">#36311</a> to protect against this.</p>
<h2>Platform</h2>
<h3>New Platform Services</h3>
<p>Unblocking Security Integration</p>
<ul> <li>Exposing session storage to auth providers has been merged (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/37992">#37992</a>)</li> </ul>
<p>Migrating Saved Objects to NP&nbsp;</p>
<ul> <li>Work has started on migrating the server-side SO Client to the NP</li> </ul>
<h3>Kibana Clustering</h3>
<p>Security concerns for the proxy plugin have been figured out for the initial release and we will be requiring mutual TLS certificates between Kibana nodes in order to properly join a cluster. The first PR for this has been merged (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38844">#38844</a>) to add configuration options for the SSL cert. Todd is now finishing up testing of this mechanism before review.</p>
<ul> </ul>
<h2>Geo-Elastic Maps Service</h2>
<p>One of the pain points for users is getting their geospatial data into Elasticsearch. <a href="https://gdal.org/">GDAL</a> is a well-known open source command line tool and library for converting between geospatial formats. GDAL has an Elasticsearch driver, but it needs to be updated to work with Elasticsearch 7.x. So we have spent time this week creating a PR to update GDAL to work with Elasticsearch 7. When this is merged and released, it will be very easy to ingest data from over 80 geospatial formats. <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/1654">osgeo/gdal/#1654</a> </p>
<h2>Visualizations, Sharing, Discover, Reporting</h2>
<h3>elastic-charts</h3>
<p>This week in elastic-charts, we removed the dependency on EUI components from the library and are now only using EUI styles. &nbsp;We also released Histogram Mode, which allows a user to specify a prop on a BarSeries (enableHistogramMode) which will correctly align the ticks and other chart elements to view the bar series as a histogram. &nbsp;We’ve also released fixes for several issues, including that now the chart resizer will only debounce the resize event after the chart has been initially rendered.</p>
<p>Fixes </p>
<ul> <li>crosshair: adjust band position for rotation (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/220">#220</a>)</li> <li>chart_resizer: debounce resize only after initial render (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/229">#229</a>)</li> <li>css: remove dependency on EUI components and use only EUI styles (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/208">#208</a>)</li> <li>line_annotation: use scaleAndValidate for line annotations (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/236">#236</a>) </li> </ul>
<p>Features </p>
<ul> <li>bar_chart: add histogram mode (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/218">#218</a>)</li> <li>scss: export the theme as SCSS file (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/231">#231</a>)</li> <li>tooltip: add custom headerFormatter (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/233">#233</a>)</li> </ul>
<p>Breaking Changes </p>
<ul> <li>css: EUI components are removed from this library. The single chart style.css stylesheet is now replaced by a theme_only_light.css or theme_only_dark.css file that brings in all the required styling for chart, tooltip and legends. theme_light.css and theme_dark.css styles include also a reset CSS style</li> <li>tooltip: Previously, you could define tooltipType and tooltipSnap props in a Settings component; this commit removes these from SettingsSpecProps and instead there is a single tooltip prop which can accept either a TooltipType or a full TooltipProps object which may include type, snap, and/or headerFormattter for formatting the header.</li> </ul>
<h3>Lens </h3>
<p>This week we merged in the first version of an essential part of the targeted editing experience: Support for dragging and dropping fields to create charts with minimal effort. Currently we are working on data tables as a second chart type besides line/bar/area and are <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/38905">optimizing the dimension editors</a>. As a part of our planning week we defined the targeted <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/36148">scope for our initial beta launch</a> which includes the most important aggregations and four different chart types.</p>
<p>Merged PRs this week: </p>
<ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38278">[38278]</a> Prepare data table to be consumed by visualization</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38820">[38820]</a> Only allow aggregated values for first iteration</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38848">[38848]</a> Apply suggested visualization on field drop </li> </ul>
<p>PRs in flight: </p>
<ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38863">[38863]</a> Add parameter configs to dimension editors</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38874">[38874]</a> Add support for field formatters</li> </ul>
<h3>Other</h3>
<p>Basic support of Elasticsearch datatype <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/date_nanos.html">date_nanos</a> was added recently to Kibana, with the merge of <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38023">#38023</a> and <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38735">#38735</a>, by enabling the context view last week, this datatype is now fully supported (There’s one limitation: you can currently search for timeranges only in milliseconds precision). </p>
<h2>Canvas</h2>
<h3>Embeddables in Canvas</h3>
<p>This week we completed a POC for using embeddables in Canvas using the new embeddables API. This POC creates a plug-in with a hello world demo that will allow the Canvas team to experiment with interacting with embeddables inside Canvas. <a href="https://github.com/crob611/canvas_embeddable">https://github.com/crob611/canvas_embeddable</a> </p>
<p>There is also a Marvel app regarding this, which you are free to review and comment on. &nbsp;<a href="https://marvelapp.com/c0a4aa1/screen/57857927">https://marvelapp.com/c0a4aa1/screen/57857927</a></p>
<h3>What’s up Docs?</h3>
<p>We have been working with the Docs team to add a ton of additional Canvas documentation with more examples and definitions for functions in Canvas. </p>
<h3>Let me tell you a story</h3>
<p>We created an example of how to convert an existing JS component. See&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38850" target="_blank">#38850</a>&nbsp;converting&nbsp;the Canvas Shape Picker and related components to Typescript and added Storybook stories.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In addition, this PR adds `svg` import understanding to Webpack and Typescript, and continues the convention of renaming `mini` to `popover`. </p>
<p>Testing</p>
<p>1. run `node scripts/storybook` </p>
<p>2. http://localhost:9001/?path=/story/components-shapes </p>
<h2>Application Architecture</h2>
<h3>Embeddables API</h3>
<ul> <li>The new embeddable API is <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/37510">merged</a>, though unused except for the sample plugin</li> <li>The new dashboard embeddable is up for <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38974">review</a>. Current dashboards will still be on the old infrastructure until the final PR.</li> <li>Multiple typescript and clean up PRs merged/in progress in order to ease the review for that final step<ul> <li>Merged: Typescript dashboard code (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/37527">1</a>, <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38546">2</a>)</li> <li>Merged: Transition type imports from embeddables -&gt; data plugin (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38681">1</a>)</li></ul></li>  </ul>
<p>On the new platform migration side we continued removing angular and moving code to new platform shims. Utilities for <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/38758">state containers</a> were merged which will allow &nbsp;easier migration from current state management over to the new platform. </p>
<h2>Design</h2>
<p>EUI updated to 11.3.2 in Kibana. Lots of new snippets added to docs </p>
<p>The EUI updates in Kibana are getting a little more difficult mostly due to making the proper test changes in Kibana to pass CI. We’re trying to get better about keeping Kibana and EUI master within a week of each other but between typescrip&nbsp;and the simple matter that EUI is almost everywhere in Kibana these days, these updates are getting more involved. This latest update brings into play the new color picker along with a few dozen bug fixes, TS conversions and quality of life features. </p>
<p>We’ve also been trying to get better about providing lighter “snippets” documentation to EUI. In the polling we did a couple months ago we were surprised that they were so popular and are trying to follow through to provide snippets for all components. This week the entirity of the Layouts section got snippets and more are coming soon. </p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt547ebb6bc7e66f6c/5d08144b877575d058476152/kibana_weekly_design_image3.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt547ebb6bc7e66f6c" alt="kibana_weekly_design_image3.png" data-image="qr2cnk7czufc"></p>
<p>Elastic Charts and EUI now have a more stable relationship<br></p>
<p>We worked with the Elastic Charts team to help separate the EUI layer so we didn’t have a circular dependency nightmare when they were both added to Kibana. Now EUI’s Sass invisibles layer (the variables, mixins and functions we use to build EUI) are imported as a dev dependency, but Charts now outputs it’s own dist css and uses components that can live independently. This gives us the benefits of updating core globals (like colors or shadows) in EUI, but won’t let the actual CSS potentially fight with whatever is in Kibana’s latest installed version of EUI. Out next stage is now building out some proper example and guideline docs into EUI about Elastic Charts usage.</p>
<h3></h3>
<h2>Stack Services</h2>
<h3>Telemetry </h3>
<ul> <li>Moved telemetry plugin from xpack_main into a NP plugin</li> <li>Shared test plan for telemetry encryption with QA team</li> </ul>

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Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for June 17, 2019

Conversion to the new platform has begun! Feature controls PR is in. New functionality went into Elastic Charts, GIS app and Canvas.

<h2>Kibana UI Update April 15</h2><p>7.0 is out! You can find the blog&nbsp;with the information <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-7-0-0-released">here</a>. Meanwhile, the Kibana&nbsp;team is already busy working towards the future releases.<span></span>
</p><h3>And we're still hiring!</h3><ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/product-management/jobs/1571633">Director / Sr Director Product Management - Kibana</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1533855">Kibana - UI/Front End Team Lead</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292795">Kibana Platform - Principal JavaScript Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1143849">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292707">Kibana - Senior Security Developer (JavaScript)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292795">Kibana - Platform Javascript Engineer (Node.js)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1595759">Kibana - Software Engineer - Operations</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1418186">Kibana - Visualisations & Vega Engineer</a></li>
</ul><h3>Security</h3><p>Feature Control
</p><p>The feature controls PR has been merged to master and 7.x. For an overview of what this provides, this <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/20277">issue</a> is the best source of information while we actively work on the end-user and developer facing documentation. There are a few minor enhancements we’re actively working on, including the addition of “read only badges” to further alert the user that they’re looking at a read-only view of an application.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/blt6d929aa1ce91599a/5cb4ea0a791abe5a29a1d22c/download" data-sys-asset-uid="blt6d929aa1ce91599a" alt="image14.gif">
</p><p><br>
</p><p>Secret Service:&nbsp;Aleh has been making great progress on the secret service, and a draft PR is available <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/34526">here</a>. Some work is still left to be done, and tests are still a work in progress.
</p><h3>Platform
</h3><p>New Platform:&nbsp;We are preparing infrastructure for plugins (Security is the first in the list) &nbsp;to extend HTTP service with custom functionality.
</p><h3>Operation
</h3><p>Generate dockerfiles target to be used for elastic/dockerfiles <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/32169">#32169</a>
</p><h3>Geo-Maps App</h3><p>Did you miss ThomasN & AlexF’s webinar on Elastic Maps last week? Be sure to catch the recording @ <a href="https://www.elastic.co/webinars/elastic-maps-for-geospatial-analysis">Elastic Maps for Geospatial Analysis</a>. We provide a good overview of the basic functionality the Maps app offers, build a <a href="https://media.giphy.com/media/2CcKiHPDsJqVi/giphy.gif">pew pew</a> map out of ECS Suricata events and dive into some future features with NYC taxi collision data. Already saw the webinar and want to play around with the data set and map? It’s all readily available in <a href="https://github.com/alexfrancoeur/elastic_maps_examples/tree/master/elastic_maps_webinar">AlexF’s example repo</a>.
</p><h3>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/blt91d30a28949d149b/5cb4f404791abe5a29a1d266/download" data-sys-asset-uid="blt91d30a28949d149b" alt="image15.png">
</p></h3><h3>Kibana App (Visualizations, Sharing, Discover, Reporting)<br></h3><h4>Elastic-Charts
</h4><p>This week we released the functionality to allow line annotation hiding any tooltips to mimic the current time marker feature in vislib.
</p><p>The legend now shows the last bucket value along with the series name. Hovering over a bar/area/line will display the relative value both on the tooltip and on the legend.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/bltf78ad5f0eb5b34ea/5cb4f03c30313775298d6414/download" data-sys-asset-uid="bltf78ad5f0eb5b34ea" alt="image6.gif">
</p><p>Each series can now be sorted using a sortIndex props on each series. We will work to implement sorting also at bucket level, a feature that is currently available on ES but not on vislib.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/blt25ea4f26b7ab9f31/5cb4f04fe06ed87a29f2d98b/download" data-sys-asset-uid="blt25ea4f26b7ab9f31" alt="image12.png">
</p><p>Band area charts are now available for areas and bars (it works similar to a candlestick chart but it doesn’t have the same features). We are working to add upper and lower series names to the tooltip and legend.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/bltaa2cb05c9c81297d/5cb4f19bb790c01122391b77/download" data-sys-asset-uid="bltaa2cb05c9c81297d" alt="image16.png">
</p><p>Animations are disabled starting from 3.10.1 until we find the right way to morph lines between two dataset of different length.
</p><h4><h3">Reporting</h3">
</h4><p>Work continued on our Export to CSV.&nbsp;We’re in the process of engaging Cloud and other teams so that there’s no surprises when we launch. <br>
	We also discovered a bug in how puppeteer handles async actions. The solution will hopefully reduce the number of “Timeout waiting for selector…” errors to appear. <br>
	Lastly, Tim has condensed our internal queue’s querying for jobs from 4 calls down to just one! This means we’ve reduced our footprint and, hopefully, reduced the amount of resources needed on both Kibana and ElasticSearch!&nbsp;
</p><h3>Canvas
</h3><h4>Under the bonnet - layout engine integration rework</h4><p>We’ve <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/33702">refactored</a> integration code, shed 100s of code lines and Redux lock-in (no thunks!) while accidentally fixing 5 bugs (and maybe adding some). It unblocks new features eg. <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/32995">box select</a>:
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/blt3a3f815e084c8e5a/5cb4f464869b38322286ae4c/download" data-sys-asset-uid="blt3a3f815e084c8e5a" alt="image5.gif">
</p><p>It’s now possible to statically render workbooks without layout engine code. The React component structure is leaner, only the currently edited page has event handlers. Proceeding with TypeScript type tests and annotations is aided by simpler data and leaner code as well.
</p><h4>More adventures in dynamic layout land</h4><p>Experiments in data driven layouting continue with three new functions (with terrible names). The first is similar to repeatElement, the difference is that this new layoutElements allows you to completely control, via the position function, the height, width, position and rotation of elements generated from a data table.
</p><p>The next function, positionElement allows you to statically position one or more elements within a container. Of course since this is Canvas, nothing has to be static, and you can use data to control their positioning and styling. This is fun because it allows for reusing a datasource across multiple elements, something we’ve wanted to do for awhile. Here’s a pretty contrived, but fun, example of &nbsp;all this
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/blt14d9bfc6d7eaa95f/5cb4f0aae16629da239c3369/download" data-sys-asset-uid="blt14d9bfc6d7eaa95f" alt="image2.gif">
</p><p>In this gif the trees are a timeseries of the average speed of airplanes near the Phoenix office, layoutElements is used to determine the height of the trees. This is actually generating a positionElement which contains both an image of a tree, as well as the speed the tree represents, and then determining the height of the container using the data.
</p><p>The position of the purple planes in the sky is determined by the speed of planes near the Phoenix office and the position of the sun is determined by the seconds of the current minute
</p><p>The animations are handled by the support for custom CSS that Canvas already has.
</p><p>If you really want to mess with this stuff, and I’m not suggesting you do, there’s a Kibana plugin that only works on master in <a href="https://github.com/rashidkpc/canvas-dynamic-layout">this github repo</a>
</p><h4><a href="https://github.com/rashidkpc/canvas-dynamic-layout"></a>Filter grouping works!</h4><p>And filters work much better too. Joe cleaned up a ton of issues we didn’t know existed in Canvas’s filter functionality, and implemented the ability for filters to exist in groups. That means that time filters no longer have to be global! No filter has to be global! You can tie specific elements, or even specific parts of an expression to one or more filter controls. Here’s a quick screenshot..
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/blt3adde9ec019a233f/5cb4f0e0c6bfc2312293ad7a/download" data-sys-asset-uid="blt3adde9ec019a233f" alt="image8.gif">
</p><h4>Loading……………… Content.</h4><p>Our crack design team has been keeping busy with designing new templates to give Canvas users a F-A-S-T start when creating new Canvases. &nbsp;We’ve been working on two for now, a presentation template and a report template. The report template is aimed at C-Level creators to dynamically update reports with data.
</p><h3>Design
</h3><h4>Docs and styling for Elastic Charts
</h4><p>One of our 7.1 goals is to get some basic documentation and styling for Elastic Charts in EUI. We’re currently working on styling the charts along with some quick snippet code to get people started. The idea here is that the Storybook docs the charts team put together can serve more as a reference, where the EUI examples can serve more as design guidelines and a chart gallery for actual solutions.
</p><h4>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltf7afce26b89a5b33/blt83fad59b6070d7cc/5cb4f1d6e06ed87a29f2d9aa/download" data-sys-asset-uid="blt83fad59b6070d7cc" alt="image3.gif">
</p></h4><h4>EUI TypeScript conversion
</h4><p>ne thing we continually hear from people is they want us to prioritize TypeScript conversion (2 out of every 3 devs marked this as important). <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/issues/1557">We’ve made good progress during 7.1</a>, even getting PRs from the community outside of Elastic and will continue to chip away at it.
</p><p><strong>Until&nbsp;next week</strong>&nbsp;<br>
	<strong>- Kibana Team</strong>
</p>

Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for April 15th, 2019

Kibana Plugin API Changes in 7.0 include changes to index pattern URL, legacy response handler and legacyIcon

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Kibana Plugin API Changes in 7.0

EUI now officially supports TypeScript in its build process. Alerting service adopted a new direction.

<html><head></head><body><h2>Welcome to Kibana weekly update!</h2><p>Happy 2019!&#xA0;
</p><p>Lots of news to share from the last month while Kibana Weekly blog was on vacation. But first, yes, we are still hiring...
</p><h2>Openings</h2><ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/product/jobs/1322612">Senior Product Manager, Kibana (Platform &amp; Security)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1533855">Kibana UI/Front end Team Lead</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292795">Kibana Platform - Principal JavaScript Engineer </a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1143849">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292707">Kibana - Senior Security Developer (JavaScript)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1418186">Kibana - Visualisations &amp; Vega Engineer</a></li>
</ul><p><strong></strong>
</p><h3>7.0 is coming!</h3><p>7.0 Beta is coming soon. Here is a sneak preview of the new chrome and the light/dark themes that will be part of that release:
</p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d2100daa-7fff-7516-34f2-d4f430a68899"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt0ffa34ca1b65f25b/5c98d5078991569e56e816e8/light_dark.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt0ffa34ca1b65f25b" alt="light dark.gif">
</p><h3>Introducing Elastic Charts</h3><p>We&apos;ve published the first version of&#xA0;<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@elastic/charts">elastic-charts</a>&#xA0;on npm.&#xA0; This library will replace the existing EUI component (as well as other chart library implementations that we currently use) and will include new features and functionality in the next phase.
</p><p>Feel free to check out the various styles and features <a href="https://elastic.github.io/elastic-charts">here</a>.
</p><h3>Security</h3><p>Kibana now has a <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29545">content security policy</a>!&#xA0;
</p><p>The new Role Management UI is in!&#xA0;We also began work on removing deprecated functionality for 7.0, including the ability to rely upon direct index access to Kibana and some legacy ssl settings.&#xA0;
</p><p>Progress continues on integrating the various applications with Feature Controls. After some deliberation, the method in which APM, Monitoring and Machine Learning will be exposed using feature controls has been decided, and the PR is going through review. We&#x2019;ve enabled feature controls in Maps, Advanced Settings, Maps; and we&#x2019;re actively working on integrating them into the remaining application.&#xA0;
</p><h3>Localized Kibana</h3><p>We have been working on wrapping up localization and Chinese translations for 7.0.
</p><p>We also worked on how to better support/enable users to translate in their preferred languages while waiting for Elastic supported and maintained translation.
</p><h3>Middleware/Alerting/Notifications/Scheduling/Secrets</h3><p>With the help of the infamous kibana security team the changes to the saved object service for hiding saved objects from the default repository are coming along but still in review. The secret store has been renamed to the secret service and is ready for early review and feedback <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/28894">#28894</a> . FYI, a more thorough definition of the phases in Alerting meta issue is currently a work in progress.
</p><h3>Browser testing coverage</h3><p>Have had a successful build with WebDriver (replacing Leadfoot library) and most tests also pass on Firefox <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/26477">#26477</a>
</p><h3>Platform<br></h3><span id="docs-internal-guid-b3cb35a6-7fff-0152-7bc2-d97cd6096005"><p dir="ltr">New platform: The initial review of the new <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/28344">Elasticsearch service</a> is done, and now work turns toward polish and test coverage. This will be the new definitive way to interact with Elasticsearch, but it&apos;ll seamlessly power the legacy elasticsearch plugin capabilities.&#xA0;The first existing plugin to start migrating functionality over to the new platform will be canvas! The canvas team had rolled their own plugin system awhile back in order to be more flexible with their expression model, but their functions are relatively decoupled from the legacy bits of Kibana, so they&apos;re a great candidate to move to our new plugin system.
</p></span><p>The saved object service now supports first-class <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/28199">object relationships</a>. This is a breaking change in 7.0 that will allow us to implement much more robust object interactions and sophisticated import/export functionality.
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>You can now specify whether you want spaces to act as <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29339">OR or AND</a> when searching with the saved object client.
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>An extensible <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/28344">help menu</a> was merged for 7.0 onward. This links off to Kibana documentation by default and allows individual apps to register their own help content.
</p><p>All previously deprecated <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29496">elasticsearch.* settings</a> have been removed for 7.0 onward.
</p><h3>Visual Testing &#xA0;</h3><ul>
	<li>Evaluating visual test tools: <a href="https://percy.io/">Percy</a> and <a href="https://applitools.com/">Applitools</a>: <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IXX68VS6IBD8uynDm9KJrdJ0lrDDhPgrrqW0mWefzsI/">Kibana Slides</a>. &#xA0;
	<ul>
		<li>Percy highlights: DOM Snapshotting and rendering across browsers</li>
		<li>Applitools highlights: Nice way to omit verification from parts of the screen and allowing multiple matching options. &#xA0;</li>
	</ul></li>
	<li>Working with Percy support to get canvas elements to render in their tool and re-doing examples with Kibana. &#xA0;</li>
	<li>Evaluating <a href="https://www.cypress.io/">Cypress</a> with use with Percy for visual testing. &#xA0;</li>
	<li>Walter gave a nice demo of his <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/24258">work</a>.</li>
</ul><h3> </h3><h2>Team summaries</h2><h3>Design</h3><p>The design team is mostly in polish and feedback mode now against 7.0. We took in a lot of feedback on the nav changes and made <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29978">some subtle adjustments</a> there with timings that should make those interactions more pleasant, but there&#x2019;s still work to do there. Thanks to Matt and Nathan, the EUI datepicker is now is use across the discover, dashboard and visualize applications. Now that the core theming / sass system is complete we&#x2019;re able to go through each app and do lots of cleanup work. Last week we focused on the Dasbhboard and <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30037">Discovery</a> apps, but have plans to do similar cleanup for the others as well.
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>On the EUI front, the dual range slider was merged and available in Kibana master. We&#x2019;ve locked the 6.7 and 7.0 branches at EUI@6.10.x and will only be releasing patch releases there if we can manage. We got an unexpected and much loved PR from Liza to provide some i18n deugging tools which we hope to get to master soon. As part of our cleanup around general security and dependency improvements in Kibana we went ahead and <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1534">updated lodash to version 4</a>. This will not go in with 7.0 and we&#x2019;ll monitor for any changes downstream it might cause.
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>PRs
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><ul>
	<li>Make map gradients more subtle #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30345">30345</a></li>
	<li>Slight tweak with dark bg color #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1530">1530</a></li>
	<li>K7 Discover app cleanup #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30037">30037</a></li>
	<li>Homepage style updates #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30341">30341</a></li>
	<li>EUI 6.10.0 &amp; Background color fixes #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30136">30136</a></li>
	<li>EUI-ify the empty prompt view #<a href="https://github.com/mattkime/kibana/pull/4">4</a></li>
	<li>[K7] Side nav interaction adjustments #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29978">29978</a></li>
	<li>[K7 navigation] Reposition Discover tooltip and hide chrome on welcome #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29769">29769</a></li>
	<li>Feature/more i18n tokens #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1504">1504</a>Move pagination react keys onto wrapping elements #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1514">1514</a></li>
	<li>Upgrade lodash to v4 #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1534">1534</a></li>
	<li>EuiDualRange component #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1485">1485</a></li>
	<li>Pause `EuiOutsideClickDetector` in `EuiPopover` and `EuiColorPicker` #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1527">1527</a></li>
</ul><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt2b13929c48b1045d/5c304cb0ff9c993a6eb5a404/image2.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt2b13929c48b1045d" alt="image2.gif">
</p><p><br>
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltdb55167a4649a9ed/5c5837f365ace9e30b316503/image1.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="bltdb55167a4649a9ed" alt="image1.gif" width="878" height="708" style="width: 878px; height: 708px;"><br>
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><h3><br></h3><h3>Geo</h3><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>Maps App
</p><ul>
	<li>Polish for beta in 6.7/7.0 continued, notably:
	<ul>
		<li>better error handling and more useful warning and error messages</li>
		<li>upgraded mapbox dependency for smoother line visualizations</li>
		<li>improve sample data for all three sample data sets</li>
		<li>Integrate geotile_grid aggregation as default clustering mechanism in 7.0. This improves the look and feel of heatmaps. The app can now preserve the same aspect ratio of the grid at each scale.</li>
	</ul></li>
</ul><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltb65733abcddaab34/5c304ca4e71ce40c6e4ad965/image8.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltb65733abcddaab34" alt="image8.png" width="955" height="862" style="width: 955px; height: 862px;"><br>
</p><p><br>
</p><table>
<tbody>
<tr>
	<td><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt0a3ca61e66e6b09a/5bc43f69128146a006bd807c/image5.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt0a3ca61e66e6b09a" alt="image5.png">
	</td>
	<td><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt5ca9b1be15652b33/5c58392302ac90e80ba0ab7b/image7.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt5ca9b1be15652b33" alt="image7.png">
	</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table><p><strong></strong>
</p><ul>
	<li>Kickstart effort on getting embeddability of maps in dashboards. This is a major next feature.</li>
</ul><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>Data Production
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><ul>
	<li>Work on deprecating France and US zip code layers and replace them with newer ones</li>
</ul><h3>Operations</h3><ul>
	<li>Upgrade assistant telemetry (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/28878">#28878</a>)</li>
	<li>Support for generating docker image on kibana build (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/28380">#28380</a>)</li>
	<li>Upgrade thread-loader (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/27518">#27518</a>)</li>
</ul><h3>KibanaApp (Visualizations, Sharing, Discover)<br></h3><p>The team focused on and will focus in the next weeks on creating a very solid 7.0 release, meaning a lot of bug fixes incoming, stabilizing features, finishing the last remaining EUI changes and refactoring (for better maintenance).
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>Made significant design improvements on Dashboard (including responsive layout for dashboards!). Also we&apos;re busy moving the saved object client (browser side code) to TypeScript, since it&apos;s one of the core APIs used in a lot of places.<br>
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><p>PRs
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><ul>
	<li>Enable query bar datepicker in core apps where appropriate (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30171">#30171</a>)</li>
	<li>Fix/reporting vis preserve (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30456">#30456</a>)</li>
	<li>Don&apos;t trigger autorefresh when autofetch false (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30405">#30405</a>)</li>
	<li>Remove filterbar for markdown visualizations (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30354">#30354</a>)</li>
	<li>fixes gauge filters (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30057">#30057</a>)</li>
	<li>Correct label for OS vis in logs sample data (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30249">#30249</a>)</li>
	<li>Add autocomplete to TSVB (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30158">#30158</a>)</li>
	<li>Fix filter context menu overlapping with left side bar (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30020">#30020</a>)</li>
	<li>Makes KQL the default query language for new searches (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/27092">#27092</a>)</li>
	<li>Fix legend overflow bug on dashboard vis (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29948">#29948</a>)</li>
	<li>Hide dashboard edit mode on small screen sizes (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30103">#30103</a>)</li>
	<li>Replace angular timepicker with EuiSuperDatePicker (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29204">#29204</a>)</li>
	<li>Use Elastic Maps Service v7.0 (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30006">#30006</a>)</li>
	<li>Toggle between Expression Pipeline &amp; Visualize Data loader (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29874">#29874</a>)</li>
	<li>Enable orderBy and orderAgg in vis editor for rollup visualizations (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29894">#29894</a>)</li>
	<li>Timelion/hide timelion (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30131">#30131</a>)</li>
	<li>[OSS-Telemetry] Make the plugin have the right config prefix (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/30005">#30005</a>)</li>
	<li>Fix TSVB flot chart render after index pattern change (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29949">#29949</a>)</li>
	<li>Microsoft SQL Server Kibana Tutorial (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29987">#29987</a>)</li>
	<li>Prepare vis data loader cutover (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29873">#29873</a>)</li>
	<li>Introduce `I18nService` core service and `I18nContext`. (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29379">#29379</a>)</li>
	<li>Fix fieldformatter calls in pipeline helper (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/29842">#29842</a>)</li>
</ul><p>Elastic-Chart PRs:
</p><ul>
	<li>fix(offscreen canvas): set negative position to move offscreen (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/50">elastic/elastic-charts#50</a>)</li>
	<li>fix(axis labels): offset previous space correctly (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/45">elastic/elastic-charts#45</a>)</li>
	<li>ci(travis): fix storybook build (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/49">elastic/elastic-charts#49</a>)</li>
	<li>build(storybook): fix ci storybook deploy (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/48">elastic/elastic-charts#48</a>)</li>
	<li>ci(travis): fix deploy phase description (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/47">elastic/elastic-charts#47</a>)</li>
	<li>build: prepare build for semantic-release (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/46">elastic/elastic-charts#46</a>)</li>
	<li>fix(axis): scale tick labels to fix text truncation on chrome (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/38">elastic/elastic-charts#38</a>)</li>
	<li>refactor(axis/grid): render grid lines in separate layer from axis (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/30">elastic/elastic-charts#30</a>)</li>
	<li>fix: add missing min interval compare function (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/37">elastic/elastic-charts#37</a>)</li>
	<li>fix(axis): add axisTitleHeight to axis increments (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/29">elastic/elastic-charts#29</a>)</li>
	<li>fix: legend titles respects series ids or groups (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/pull/28">elastic/elastic-charts#28</a>)</li>
</ul><p>Cheers,Kibana
</p><p><br>
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Keeping up with Kibana: Welcome to 2019! (catch up edition)

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Kibana Plugin API Changes in 6.6

Elastic Stack 6.5.4 has been released. Learn more about the fixes it contains.

<html><head></head><body><p>Version 6.5.4 of the Elastic Stack has been released today. It contains fixes for a couple of notable issues in Beats and Kibana. </p> <p>Notable bug fixes: </p> <ul> <li>In Kibana, the Elasticsearch timeout setting of 0 is now respected as &#x201C;no timeout&#x201D; as documented (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/27209">#27209</a>). This was a regression that caused visualizations to return partial data or errors starting in the 6.5.3 release.</li> <li>Also in Kibana, the &#x201C;Show partial buckets&#x201D; option is now again available in the Visualize app. (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/25521">#25521</a>).</li> <li>In Filebeat, the Go routine memory leak that was previously fixed &#xA0;is now included in 6.5. (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/9592">#9592</a>).</li> <li>A fix for the potential CPU denial of service in certificate validation (CVE-2018-16875). (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/9563">#9563</a>)</li> </ul> <p>We recommend that you &#xA0;upgrade to this latest version. For a full list of changes for each of the Elastic Stack&#x2019;s products, please refer to the release notes for <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/release-notes-6.5.4.html">Elasticsearch</a>, <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.5/release-notes-6.5.4.html">Kibana</a>, <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/6.5/release-notes-6.5.4.html">Beats</a>, and <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/logstash-6-5-4.html">Logstash</a>. </p> <span></span></body></html>

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Elastic Stack 6.5.4 Released

We are removing PhantomJS in 7.0.  Trigonometry Functions in TinyMath in Canvas. EUI palette updates.

<html><head></head><body><h2>Welcome to Kibana weekly update!</h2><p>Please note: we are removing PhantomJS in 7.0! This is a breaking change. In 6.3.0 and above, Chromium was the default option for Reporting&#x2019;s headless browser, and now it will be the only valid option.&#xA0; See the PR: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/27142">https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/27142</a>
</p><h2>Hiring</h2><ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/product/jobs/1281856">Senior Product Manager, Kibana (Data Visualization)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/product/jobs/1322612">Senior Product Manager, Kibana (Platform &amp; Security)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292795">Kibana Platform - Principal JavaScript Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1143849">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292707">Kibana - Senior Security Developer (JavaScript)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1273539">UI Engineer - Design</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1418186">Kibana - Visualisations &amp; Vega Engineer</a></li>
</ul><h2>Roadmap themes updates</h2><h3>Alerting service
</h3><p>Investigated the implementation of a SecretStore. Detailing tasks and organizing phases to be done to get alerting service implemented. Currently looking at delivering secret store, action service, task manager, and alerts. </p><h3>Geo</h3><p>GIS App<br></p><ul>
	<li>More testing, code reviews</li>
	<li>Improvements to geohashgrid styling</li>
</ul><p>EMS
</p><ul>
	<li>R&amp;D into automating the fixing of invalid geometries for region boundary layers</li>
</ul><p>Kibana &#xA0;6.6 prep
</p><ul>
	<li>Work on EMS 6.6 version bump continues</li>
	<li>Improving messaging around zoom-levels, and investigate how Kibana can show feedback if a tile-server it not accessible</li>
	<li>Fix regression in 6.x/master (no impact on users) <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/26868">#26868</a></li>
</ul><h3>Canvas integration</h3><h4>Trigonometry Functions in TinyMath</h4><p>Rob Bruce from Crimson Mccaw was awesome enough to introduce a whole host of trig functions into TinyMath, the mathematics library that Rashid and Catherine wrote to replace MathJS in Canvas and was later brought into TSVB. Specifically Rob needed to do things like calculate the arcs in the customizable SVG elements he created for Canvas.
</p><p>He also wrote tests and docs: <a href="https://github.com/elastic/tinymath/pull/42/files">https://github.com/elastic/tinymath/pull/42/files</a>
</p><h4>Plotly Experiments</h4><p>Robert had a bit of time to have some fun,so&#xA0;he created an all-new render function that uses Plotly to render stunning charts using the standard Canvas data model. This sort of thing tracks beautifully with our goals of Canvas being simple, flexible and personal. Robert knows and loves Plotly, and it didn&#x2019;t take long for him to bring that into Canvas.
</p><p>Take for example, the violin chart:filters</p><pre>| demodata
| pointseries x=&quot;project&quot; y=&quot;price&quot; color=&quot;project&quot;
| plotly &quot;violin&quot; title=&quot;Violin plot&quot;
| render</pre><p>The only thing that changed from a regular-plain-ol-Canvas chart, was line 4 of the above expression. Plotly just slots right in!</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt91dde0dbfdd24acc/5c30479f4657a057675ba64a/image4.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt91dde0dbfdd24acc" alt="image4.gif"></p><p>monfera Pipeline just worked &#x2122;</p><ul>
</ul><h2>Team summaries</h2><h3>Design</h3><p>We worked with the Creative Services team to update EUI&#x2019;s palette to better match the upcoming brand changes. This results in a much brighter / poppier feel to everything. There&#x2019;s a big PR coming soon that will incorporate these changes and we&#x2019;re using it as a time to do some more aggressive house cleaning, removing large piece of the legacy KUI codebase. We&#x2019;re also moving full-steam ahead into typescript and you can see a combined effort from the Kibana, SwiftType and Cloud teams to migrate over. Oh yeah, SwiftType will soon be using EUI in production!
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt2b13929c48b1045d/5c304cb0ff9c993a6eb5a404/image2.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt2b13929c48b1045d" alt="image2.gif"></p><p>Some new card flourishes <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1338">added</a> to EuiCard<br></p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltf581761ed5273cd8/5bbf22fc6a851d9f7f70ca7d/image6.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltf581761ed5273cd8" alt="image6.png"></p><p>Some <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1346">changes</a> were made to how we handle breadcrumb truncation. They now are no longer truncated per item, but are truncated as space allows.<br></p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt3d95f93fc8fb5fac/5c6c4812e9cab20962928d90/image3.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt3d95f93fc8fb5fac" alt="image3.png"><br></p><p>Some subtle changes were made to how browsers deal with text wrapping within table cells. You can read more about it <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1349">here</a>, but the changes should be invisible to most.
</p><p>PRs
</p><ul>
	<li>Add card graphics #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1338">1338</a></li>
	<li>Convert EuiScreenReaderOnly and EuiBadgeNotification to TS #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1341">1341</a></li>
	<li>Convert EuiColorPickerSwatch, EuiColorPickerEmptySwatch, EuiComboBoxTitle, and EuiDelayHide to TypeScript #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1342">1342</a></li>
	<li>Better breadcrumb truncation #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1346">1346</a></li>
	<li>Fix word-break in tables on most browsers #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1349">1349</a></li>
	<li>creative + product coloring #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1356">1356</a></li>
	<li>Add react-datepicker as an eui package #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1337">1337</a></li>
	<li>EUI 5.6.0 #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/26839">26839</a></li>
	<li>[Canvas] Make selection border 1px #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/26739">26739</a></li>
</ul><h3>Operations</h3><p>PRs
</p><ul>
	<li>Create vendor dll for the client modules (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22618">#22618</a>)</li>
	<li>Add normalizePath in order to fix watch optimizer when running on windows (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/26486">#26486</a>)</li>
</ul><h3>Platform</h3><p>The initial work for new saved objects import / export API has started. This includes gathering requirements for the new API, investigating existing saved objects import / export functionality and designing an export implementation that can handle large amounts of data.
</p><p>PRs
</p><ul>
	<li>Add rest_total_hits_as_int into kibana platform (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/26432">#26432</a>)</li>
	<li>Fix saved objects client _processBatchQueue function to handle errors (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/26763">#26763</a>)</li></ul><p>Cheers,</p><p>Kibana</p></body></html>

Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for Dec 10th, 2018

We re continuing to improve styling of GIS app. Canvas team is working on workpad templates and grouping. New visual editor design is progressing.

<html><head></head><body><p>Here is a quick update on what Kibana team has been working on last week.<br></p> <h2>Oh by the way, we are hiring!</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/product/jobs/1281856">Senior Product Manager, Kibana (Data Visualization)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/product/jobs/1322612">Senior Product Manager, Kibana (Security)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1382876">Kibana UI Technical Lead</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292795">Kibana Platform - Principal JavaScript Engineer </a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1143849">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292707">Kibana - Senior Security Developer (JavaScript)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1273539">UI Engineer - Design</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1418186">Kibana - Visualisations &amp; Vega Engineer</a></li> </ul> <h2><br></h2><h2>Key theme&#xA0;updates</h2> <h3>Security</h3> <p>Granular Application Privileges progress continues! The PR to allow features to define their own privileges has merged; and the PR to allow features to be hidden per application with a Basic license is going through review. A PR to disable certain UI capabilities based on privileges is also going through review. </p> <h3>Alerting Service</h3> <p>After reviewing our notes from other teams we talked to we updated our phase 1 plan with necessary capabilities for developers in order to make the service usable. You can critique the changes to <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/25263">phase 1</a> through the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/24214">meta issue</a> on github.</p> <h3>K7 design</h3> <p>This week Dave merged ML conversion to SASS (that was a BIG PR!). We are also continuing work on converting filter bar to EUI:</p>  <h3>Geo</h3><ul> </ul> <p>GIS App </p> <ul> <li>Continue to work on styling</li> <li>Improvements to join-functionality</li> <li>Added UX controls for setting extent</li></ul><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltc88b33612199daf4/5c304d3cc05f480270a742d4/image9.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltc88b33612199daf4" alt="image9.png"></p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt2c8887f969c5bda5/5c58394152256ff20b4afd5c/image10.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt2c8887f969c5bda5" alt="image10.png"><span></span></p><ul> </ul>   <h3><br></h3><h3>Canvas Integration</h3><p>Planning week! We re-evaluated, but mostly reaffirmed our feature plans for 6.6 and GA in 6.7, but it&#x2019;s not like we did nothing but meetings. That just isn&#x2019;t our style&#x2026;<br></p> <h4>URL Parameter support</h4> <p>Joe introduced URL parameter function support and wildly simplified the code around our router. You can once again pass parameters directly from the URL anywhere into a Canvas expression. Oh look, there&#x2019;s Internet Explorer. Hi there Internet Explorer. </p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltb74c534f45f19f60/5c58388d516e21cf0b2a11f4/image11.jpg" data-sys-asset-uid="bltb74c534f45f19f60" alt="image11.jpg"></p>  <h4>Persistent Grouping</h4> <p>Robert is getting closer to supporting fully persisted groups of elements. Elements are selected by holding down shift, clicking a bunch of them, and hitting the `g` key.&#xA0; </p> <h4>Workpad Templates</h4> <p>Workpad templates are coming along. The first phase will allow for plugging in new templates on the filesystem. For example, a Kibana administrator could drop a JSON file on the disk and others would simply be allowed to clone it into Elasticsearch. </p> <p>We&#x2019;re also working to add thumbnails now, and we anticipate adding support for auto-generated thumbnails to saved workpads in the near future. </p><p><br></p>  <h3>New Visualization Editor</h3> <p>This week the editor design incorporated field statistics similar to those found in discover and machine learning. This will help end-users get a quick glance of their data without the need to swap between discover and visualize. </p>  <h3><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt251899278831d9b2/5c304cae29d13af10bc2ab20/image7.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt251899278831d9b2" alt="image7.gif"></p></h3> <h3><br></h3> <h2>Team summaries</h2> <p><br></p> <h3>Design</h3> <p>The team continues the ever-lasting SASS conversion, working our way into the ui/public and ui_framework (KUI) folders. TSVB got a small facelift during its conversion #<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/24250">24250</a>&#xA0;(though there&#x2019;s a small style bug with combo boxes that has fix in the next EUI release). The global date picker in EUI got it&#x2019;s final round of visual patterns implemented. Hopeful that it will get logic hookups in the coming weeks. We are continuing to test EUI for Framer by adding more components. Typescript in EUI continues.</p> <p>Spaces and the upgrade checker are getting some copy changes. 6.5.1 release notes are being finalized along with a blog post for rollups. </p> <p>EUI is at <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/releases/tag/v5.1.0">5.1.0</a> </p> <p>PRs </p> <ul> <li>Added support for nodes as &quot;Action&quot; column headers in EuiBasicTable, which was overlooked in the original change in 4.5.0 (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1312">#1312</a>)</li> <li>Updated GlobalDatePicker example to include all Kibana features (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1219">#1219</a>)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Fixed fullWidth size of EuiComboBox, a regression introduced in 4.7.0 (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1314">#1314</a>)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Improve TypeScript definitions for EuiTableRowCellProps (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1310">#1310</a>)</li> <li>TypeScript types are now published to a eui.d.ts top-level file (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1304">#1304</a>)</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Introduce TypeScript support into the dev &amp; build systems (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1317">#1317</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>Operations<br></h3> <p>PRs<br></p> <ul> <li>Run jenkins:unit task with dev flag in order to run license check (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19832">#19832</a>)</li> <li>Fix recent non-conforming licenses (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25560">#25560</a>)</li> <li>Remove Husky (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/24887">#24887</a></li></ul><ul> </ul> <h3>KibanaApp (Visualizations, Sharing, Discover)</h3> <p>The team focused on finishing several bug fixes for 6.5.1. Other work included fixing reporting tests, working towards using canvas expressions for all visualizations, localization code reviews, and the EUIfication of the filter bar. Here is a screenshot of the progress so far: </p> <p>PRs </p> <ul> <li>changing vis.API.events (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25280">#25280</a>)</li> <li>[I18n] Rename &apos;i18n-context&apos; to &apos;i18n-description&apos; in Timelion help (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25637">#25637</a>)</li> <li>[I18n] Inject Intl Polyfill to PhantomJS (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25465">#25465</a>)</li> <li>fixing map bounds (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25040">#25040</a>)</li> <li>Timefilter should return strings instead of moments (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25625">#25625</a>)</li> <li>Ensure custom set axis titles are preserved when loading a saved vis. (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/24176">#24176</a>)</li> <li>Remove experimental flag from Visual Builder (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25634">#25634</a>)</li> <li>Add href option in addition to onClick (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25233">#25233</a>)</li> <li>Combine common pdf png functions (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25152">#25152</a>)</li> <li>[Bug] Fixing flash of unstyled dashboard content (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25559">#25559</a>)</li> <li>[I18n] Translate Timelion (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/23880">#23880</a>)</li> <li>[Flaky test fix] Turn back on data_shared_attributes test (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25156">#25156</a>)</li> <li>Fix timelion issue when elasticsearch.shardTimeout is 0 (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/25461">#25461</a>)</li> </ul></body></html>

Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for Nov 12th, 2018

Canvas has been merged to Master; Index migrations have been added; more sample data is coming in 6.5

<html><head></head><body><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-2a2a9044-7fff-e35c-f728-6dc291670d10"></span>
</p><h4>Welcome to Keeping up with Kibana! This is a series of posts on new developments in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events.</h4><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;" rel="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><strong>Hiring - 7 Openings!</strong></h2><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">
	<dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1231629"><strong>Kibana - JavaScript Engineer in Test</strong></a></dir="ltr"></li>
	<li dir="ltr">
	<dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292795"><strong>Kibana Platform - Principal JavaScript Engineer</strong></a></dir="ltr"></li>
	<li dir="ltr">
	<dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1138525"><strong>Kibana Platform - Tech Lead</strong></a></dir="ltr"></li>
	<li dir="ltr">
	<dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1143849"><strong>Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</strong></a></dir="ltr"></li>
	<li dir="ltr">
	<dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292458"><strong>Kibana - Senior Platform Developer (JavaScript)</strong></a></dir="ltr"></li>
	<li dir="ltr">
	<dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1292707"><strong>Kibana - Senior Security Developer (JavaScript)</strong></a></dir="ltr"></li>
	<li dir="ltr">
	<dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1273358"><strong>Technical Writer, Kibana</strong></a></dir="ltr"></li>
</ul><h3>Canvas Beta is coming in 6.5!</h3><p>We done merged it! Canvas is now part of the core Kibana repository and we&#x2019;ve already started reaching out to customers that have expressed interest in contributing to let them know it&#x2019;s open season on getting great ideas into Canvas.
</p><p>What is Canvas? Wait what? I don&#x2019;t even. Look, <a href="https://vimeo.com/elasticsearch/review/290379962/f73ce9e088 ">here&#x2019;s Alex Francouer explaining it at ElasticON Boston</a>. He does a great job of breaking it down into use cases, functionality, and fun tricks.&#xA0;
</p><p>Speaking of use cases; we have been cranking away on creating wonderful content for Canvas, including new usecase workpads like this fancy (work in progress) example for operational analytics. Check out that little flame chart.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt8e32c00c9b96d1d6/5c3050dbe7a0881470c3a47f/flame_chart.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt8e32c00c9b96d1d6" alt="flame chart.png">
</p><p><br>
</p><h3>Rollup support in Kibana</h3><p>The Rollup Job Wizard is fully operational! Rollup job configuration is complex and this wizard simplifies the process for our users so they can move through it confidently and quickly to begin rolling up data. We&#x2019;ve completed its functionality and are now incorporating design feedback and soliciting review from our copywriters and localization teammates. Select parts of the UI will undergo additional polish, such as the cron pattern input, and then we&#x2019;ll move into QA and test coverage.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt0816e5de8ec52a7e/5c3050d7a253ae3e67bc85d1/rollup_wizard.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt0816e5de8ec52a7e" alt="rollup wizard.png">
</p><p>We&#x2019;ve also been making progress integrating rollup data with our visualizations and dashboards. This entails visually labeling dashboard panels which contain rollup data, gracefully degrading the parts of our UI which don&#x2019;t play nicely with rollup data (like the query bar and filter bar), and chasing down and squashing the inevitable bugs. The bottom line? Crafting a great user experience for a feature which touches almost every app in Kibana is hard but we&#x2019;re making it happen! <br>
</p><h3>Spaces are in review
</h3><p>Spaces is ready for review! We finished up our two pending PRs this week to secure access, and to enable space-aware advanced settings, and we&#x2019;ve completed our test suites.&#xA0;We have one outstanding task to check if users have any access to Kibana, but we&#x2019;ll complete this once the Elasticsearch APIs are in place to support it.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltad551da71cd10b52/5c30508393d9791a70cd73a7/spaces.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltad551da71cd10b52" alt="spaces.png"></p><hr><p>Check out the new&#xA0;<a href="https://www.elastic.co/webinars/getting-started-kibana" target="_blank">getting started with Kibana webinar</a> using 6.4, the webinar is 30 minutes long and shows how to create a new visualization, create a dashboard, start a trial, and use our commercial offering including reporting, alerting, and security.<br>
</p><hr><p><br>
</p><h3>Other work completed</h3><h4>Design
</h4><p>We&#x2019;re working towards our longer term projects.  The <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/19748">Sass conversion</a> continues with a big merge in the visualization app. We&#x2019;re making our way into Machine learning and then hopefully will have a more global system ready to start converting over most of ui/public. On the EUI front we added a bunch of new abilities to <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1103">Table actions</a> and the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1180">Search Bar</a>, allowing our friends in cloud to build out more advanced filtering in their infrastructure views. We also added a new Facet Button component to help out as well. The filter and <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1137">query bar patterns</a> were merged in and along with it some changes to the ways we handle context menu animations.
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">Table actions visibility <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1103">#1103</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Accessibility/tables <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1181">#1181</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Global patterns for query and filter bar <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1137">#1137</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Add EuiFacetButton <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1167">#1167</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Allowing context menu panels to have different widths <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1173">#1173</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Another fixer PR <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1188">#1188</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Combobox fixes <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1183">#1183</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Better support for string values in search queries <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1189">#1189</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">IE11 doesn&apos;t support document.contains() <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1190">#1190</a></li>
</ul><h4>Geo</h4><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">Removing extraneous whitespace characters between attributions in attribution string in map visualization (Fixes #21612) (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22003">#22003</a>)</li>
</ul><h4>Management</h4><ul>
	<li>Improved the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22969">accessibility of Advanced Settings</a>&#xA0;</li>
	<li>Made it easier for users to <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22925">opt-in to telemetry</a> when they update their X-Pack license.</li>
	<li>Localize JobDetails tabs of Rollup Job Wizard (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/23020">#23020</a>)</li>
	<li>Add Terms, Histogram, Metrics, and Review steps to Rollup Job Wizard (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22984">#22984</a>)</li>
	<li>Fix _source formatting (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22800">#22800</a>)</li>
	<li>Add date histogram step to Create Rollup Job Wizard (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22789">#22789</a>)</li>
	<li>Patch for rollup visualizations not rendering (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22784">#22784</a>)</li>
	<li>A11y fix for advanced settings (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22969">#22969</a>)</li>
	<li>Add telemetry opt in to license upload and start trial (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22925">#22925</a>)</li>
</ul><h4>Kibana Apps (Visualizations, Sharing, Discover)</h4><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">KibanaApp<ul>
		<li dir="ltr">Remove nesting-indicator directive (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/23180">#23180</a>)</li>
	</ul></li>
	
	<li dir="ltr">Discovery<ul>
		<li dir="ltr">Expose `max_concurrent_shard_requests` for `_msearch` requests(<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22379">#22379</a>)</li>
	</ul></li>
	
	<li dir="ltr">Visualizations<ul>
		<li dir="ltr">Removing extraneous whitespace characters between attributions in attribution string in map visualization (Fixes #21612) (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22003">#22003</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">Visualize LESS to SASS (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22679">#22679</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">Remove nesting-indicator directive (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/23180">#23180</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">hierarchical response handler rewrite (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22578">#22578</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">fixed editor state updates for parent pipeline aggs (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22874">#22874</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">fixing sorting of terms bucket (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22919">#22919</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">changing the way aggconfig field filter works (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22756">#22756</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">decouple agg configs from vis (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/21827">#21827</a>)</li>
	</ul></li>
	
	<li dir="ltr">Sharing<ul>
		<li dir="ltr">Bring back most of the filtering tests, only bypass the known current issues (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22787">#22787</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">bump EUI to 3.11.0 (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22745">#22745</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">Migrate reporting top nav to sharing context menu (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22596">#22596</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">translate tutorials(aerospike_metrics, apache_logs, apache_metrics) (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22875">#22875</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">Default to chromium and add deprecation warning for phantom. (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/21505">#21505</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">Controls vis - safely handle case where value can not be extracted from Kibana filter (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22885">#22885</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">Translate Input Control component (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22400">#22400</a>)</li>
	</ul></li>
	
</ul><p>Cheers,<br>Kibana
</p></body></html>

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Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for September 17, 2018

Kibana 6.4 has been released. We are hard at work on new features for 6.5 and 7.0.

<html><head></head><body><h4>Welcome to Keeping up with Kibana! This is a series of posts on new developments in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events.</h4><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:16pt" rel="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:16pt">Hiring</h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b" rel="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We have these open positions on the Kibana team.</span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1143849" "="">Kibana - Senior JavaScript Engineer</a>
	</span></span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1231629" "="">Kibana - Software Engineer in Test</a>
	</span></span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/kibana/jobs/1138525" "="">Kibana - Tech Lead (Platform)</a>
	</span></span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span>
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	</span></span>
</p>
<hr>
<h3 dir="ltr" rel="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:16pt" style="margin-top: 16pt; margin-bottom: 4pt; line-height: 1.38; background-color: #d5f4e6;">6.4 is out!</h3>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b;background-color: #d5f4e6;" rel="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;">For the overview of changes, see <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-6-4-0-released">the release blog</a>.</span></span>
</p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b;background-color: #d5f4e6;" rel="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We have also posted&#xA0;<a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/upcoming-kibana-plugin-api-changes-in-6-4">this blog</a>&#xA0;to help you with migration of custom plugins.</span></span>
</p>
<hr>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b" rel="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></span>
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</div><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:10pt;" rel="line-height:1.38;"></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-bottom:10pt;" rel="line-height:1.38;">Security<br></h3><p dir="ltr" rel="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b">Spaces, Spaces, Spaces! This past week, we continued securing Spaces and have a majority of the functionality itself complete with high-level API tests. The unit tests still need to be created and updated, but we believe that we&#x2019;ve uncovered and solved all of the major challenges with securing spaces. The new UI for managing Space related privileges is going through review as well!
The next major hurdle that we&#x2019;ll be dealing with is the few outlier Advanced/UI Settings that can&#x2019;t or shouldn&#x2019;t be space aware: the telemetry opt-in and the e-mail that is used to send monitoring cluster alerts. We&#x2019;re currently iterating on the approach and will hopefully have a final decision shortly.
</p><h3 dir="ltr" rel="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Accessibility Compliance<br></h3><p><span></span>We are continuing to work on WCAG A level issues found in 6.3. We hope to be done with all the fixes and enhacements by 6.5.
</p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;" rel="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Canvas</h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b" rel="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Please check <a href="https://canvas.elastic.co/">Canvas blog</a> for Click through select and other cool features the team has been working on.</span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b" rel="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br></span>
</p><h3 dir="ltr" rel="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b">Operations<br></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The team is working on p</span>arsing the server side code in order to understand which are the node_modules used by the server that should not be deleted even if they got bundled by the client vendors dll.
</p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;" rel="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Geo</h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">PRs</span>
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b233e7ca-7fff-e437-d358-102f60fb237b">Maps now load deprecated tilemaps entries correctly <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22095">#22095</a>.</span></li>
</ul><p>Elastic Maps Service
</p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7806421d-7fff-9f02-b23f-9517e1039a90"><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">The new version of the EMS file service, which supports versioning of data and manifests, as well as reduces the code footprint, has merged (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/ems-file-service/pull/17">#17</a>). Doing integration testing right now.</li>
	<li dir="ltr">Data production: continued work on UK layer, but seems wikidata will not be usable. Will look into data from National Ordnance Survey next as possible source.<span></span></li>
</ul></span><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;" rel="line-height:1.38;margin-top:16pt;margin-bottom:4pt;">Visualizations<br></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;b"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">PRs</span>
</p><ul>
	<ul>
		<li dir="ltr">[docs/vis] document Top Hit metric agg (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20433">#20433</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">Fix selecting time range in embedded mode (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/22053">#22053</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr">ReactVisType VisFactory - pass appState to Component (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/21974">#21974</a>)</li>
		<li dir="ltr"><span></span>Fix Heatmap limited custom ranges (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/21958">#21958</a></li>
	</ul>
</ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><strong><br></strong>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cheers,</span>
</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Kibana team</span>
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Keeping up with Kibana: The week of August 13, 2018

If you are currently using custom Kibana plugins, be aware of the changes we are making in 6.4.

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Upcoming Kibana Plugin API Changes in 6.4

<html><head></head><body><h4>Welcome to Keeping up with Kibana! This is a series of posts on new developments in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events.</h4>
<p><br>
</p>
<p class="c7"><span class="c3 c16"></span>
</p>
<h3 class="c5" id="h.9xwbf4gswplf">Canvas</h3>
<p class="c7">Check out this <a href="https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canvas-blog-stream/126823/49">guest blog</a> by Edan Shahmoon from Micro Focus who was kind enough to share his experience with Canvas.&#xA0;
</p>
<p class="c2"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<h3 class="c5" id="h.iwgks19xcq7u">Geo</h3>
<p class="c7"><span class="c3">The team focused on o</span>ngoing maintenance of the Kibana &amp; Vega maps
</p>
<p class="c7">PRs
</p>
<p class="c2"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<ul class="c9 lst-kix_bbc3c3zhwvzj-0 start">
	<li class="c6">Add region ISO code to GeoIP Ingest Plugin in Elasticsearch <span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/31669">#31669</a></span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class="c5" id="h.nvydmdd4a900">Design</h3>
<p class="c7"><span class="c3">Last week the design team started a large project converting Kibana to use Sass in place of Less. This needs to be done so Kibana&#x2019;s style layer can talk with EUI and paves the way for consistency and theming. We also spent time getting Kibana up to speed with the latest version of EUI (to use our new popover service). Lastly, a pattern was added to give provide an example of the K7 date selector. </span>
</p>
<p class="c2"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<p class="c7"><span class="c13">PRs</span>
</p>
<ul>
	<li>EuiCard updates <span class="c4" style="background-color: initial;"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1032">#1032</a></span></li>
	<li>Added visualization type glyphs <span class="c4" style="background-color: initial;"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1020">#1020</a></span></li>
	<li>Fix EuiOutsideClickDetector to work when its nested inside itself <span class="c4" style="background-color: initial;"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1039">#1039</a></span></li>
	<li>Enhance the test&apos;s polyfilled MutationObserver <span class="c4" style="background-color: initial;"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1035">#1035</a></span></li>
	<li>Global date picker <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1026">#1026</a></li>
</ul><span class="c13"></span>
<p class="c7"><a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/1026"></a>
</p>
<p class="c2 c19"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<h3 class="c5" id="h.hpyugo6m8167">Management</h3>
<p class="c7"><span class="c3">Last week we added a sweet new feature: the ability to validate scripted fields directly from within the scripted fields UI.</span>
</p>
<p class="c7"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt4c7702ce28558d0e/5c095d043007a2cb19bfbf9f/image4.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt4c7702ce28558d0e" alt="image4.png">
</p>
<p class="c2"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<p class="c7"><span class="c13">PRs</span>
</p>
<p class="c2"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<ul class="c9 lst-kix_bbc3c3zhwvzj-0">
	<li class="c6">Change painless scripted field <span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/21026">#21026</a></span></li>
	<li class="c6">Add rollupSearchStrategy <span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20505">#20505</a></span></li>
	<li class="c6">Make &apos;Change password&apos; button on account page keyboard-accessible <span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20958">#20958</a></span></li>
	<li class="c6">Reactify users roles <span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20739">#20739</a></span></li>
	<li class="c6">scripted fields preview and validate script before saving <span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20746">PR 20746</a></span></li>
</ul>
<h3 class="c5" id="h.zhxhs4h4e064">Sharing<br></h3>
<p class="c7">Features<br>
</p>
<ul class="c9 lst-kix_bbc3c3zhwvzj-0">
	<li class="c6">Progress is continuing on index migrations PR (<span class="c4 c10"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20897">#20897</a></span><span class="c3">)</span></li>
	<li class="c6">Scripted fields preview&#xA0;(<span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/20746">#20746</a></span>)</li>
</ul>
<p class="c2"><span class="c3 c22"></span>
</p>
<p class="c20"><span class="c13 c22">Bugs</span>
</p>
<ul class="c9 lst-kix_fb5h1ilgtn9a-0 start">
	<li class="c20 c25"><span class="c22">PR still in review for chromium bug fi</span>x (<span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/20770">#20770</a></span><span class="c3">)</span></li>
	<li class="c20 c25">Fixed sample data gap bug (<span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20897">#20897</a></span>)</li>
	<li class="c20 c25">Fix disabled range input control bug&#xA0;(<span class="c4"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/20811">#20811</a></span><span class="c3">)</span></li>
</ul>
<p class="c2"><span class="c3"></span>
</p>
<h3 class="c5" id="h.oi7n8konovdd">Visualizations</h3>
<p class="c7"><span class="c3">The visualization teams was refactoring the core rendering infrastructure and loaders to use TypeScript in that week (PRs outstanding for upcoming week).&#xA0;</span>Also fixed a regression issue for 6.3 where visualizations unnecessarily flicker while rerendering (<span class="c4" style="background-color: initial;"><a class="c0" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20817">#20817</a></span>)<span class="c10" style="background-color: initial;">.</span>
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Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for July 23rd, 2018

<html><head></head><body><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e51d0411-889b-eb6a-5abf-d29705f68223"></span>
</p><h4>Welcome to Keeping up with Kibana! This is a series of posts on new developments in the Kibana project and related learning resources and events.</h4><p><br>
</p><p><strong></strong>
</p><div><strong>       Job Openings in Kibana:
	</strong>
</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><strong>
	<ul>
		<li>
		<div style="display: inline !important;"><a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/engineering/jobs/945486" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/engineering/jobs/945486&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1528469223635000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEC1CIWQSvFghY9pXaMpXzaLSwRwg">Kibana Canvas - Senior Product Designer</a>
		</div></li>
		<li>
		<div style="display: inline !important;">
			<a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/engineering/jobs/1138525" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/engineering/jobs/1138525&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1528469223635000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHx_nO2wRwv5q8-E9JWd_fwXlcCew">Kibana - Platform Area Tech Lead</a>
		</div></li>
		<li>
		<div style="display: inline !important;">
			<div style="display: inline !important;">
				<a href="https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/engineering/jobs/1143849" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.elastic.co/about/careers/engineering/jobs/1143849&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1528469223635000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGmAaV8KJquknpkCLf1Q7XM69Sr3A">Kibana - Senior Javascript Engineer</a>
			</div>
		</div></li>
	</ul>
	</strong>
</div><div>
	<h2>New Inspector replaces Spy panels
	</h2>
</div><p>The visualization spy panels have been removed from Kibana and replaced by the new Inspector feature.
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt0d1ac3ec3a7d1c66/5c57e48485820dce0bcc2c51/localhost_5601_imq_app_kibana.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt0d1ac3ec3a7d1c66" alt="localhost_5601_imq_app_kibana.png" width="975" height="734" style="width: 975px; height: 734px;">
</p><p> The Inspector shows more accurate data, such as all requests that have been made for a visualization. You can trigger the Inspector for visualizations from different places. For example, on dashboards you can find the trigger in the panel menu:
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltafeda27022726d25/5c30564ce5b78fdd0bed35c7/inspector-trigger-dashboard.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltafeda27022726d25" alt="inspector-trigger-dashboard.png">
</p><p>In the visualization editor, you can find the trigger in the top menu:
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt12985ca28fd5ab00/5c30564833d6423967f5b580/inspector-trigger-visualize.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt12985ca28fd5ab00" alt="inspector-trigger-visualize.png">
</p><p>The most important changes are:
</p><ul>
	<li>The data displayed is more accurate, showing the actual requests that have been made for the given visualization.</li>
	<li>For visualizations that do multiple requests (currently if you enable &quot;Other Bucket&quot; on a terms aggregation), we now show all requests in the Requests view of the Inspector.</li>
	<li>The new design is&#xA0;Kibana 7-aligned.</li>
	<li>The Inspector can contain different views depending on what element you inspect. Currently, a Data view (tabular data) and Requests view are available&#xA0;for all classical charts. But because the available views depend on the inspected element, don&apos;t get confused&#xA0;if, in the future, some charts show views other than charts.</li>
	<li>The Inspector is intended for temporary analysis of a visualization. Therefore, we no longer store any of it&apos;s open state in the URL.</li>
	<li>The Inspector is no longer available in the&#xA0;Discovery tab. The data that was shown there was incorrect, so we removed it for now.</li>
</ul><p>You can see more details in the <a "https:github.com="" elastic="" kibana="" pull="" 16387"="" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16387">Inspector PR #16387</a> and in the <a "https:="" github.com="" elastic="" kibana="" blob="" master="" src="" ui="" public="" inspector="" readme.md"="" href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/ui/public/inspector/README.md">Inspector developer documentation</a>. These changes will be released in 6.4.
</p><h2>Other news
</h2><h3>Design</h3><p>It&apos;s been a busy week for the design team. We cleaned up and <a href="http://snid.es/382L3j2s3x2L">improved our fixed positioning service</a> (note the position of the arrows over each hover) that we use to calculate positions of popovers, tooltips, and dropdowns. We also got a Super Select dropdown and new Range component lined up for EUI. Also,&#xA0;<a href="https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/package/changelog">EUI is now at 1.0.0</a> and has a new release script tool.
</p><p>Other PRs<br>
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">Refactor EuiTabbedContent to track its selected tab by name <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/931">#931</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">New popover positioning service and updated EuiToolTip <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/924">#924</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">New section in the Component Development&#xA0;doc on how to test with Kibana <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/934">#934</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Release script update to choose how to bump the version <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/944">#944</a></li>
</ul><h3>Management</h3><p>We merged a few more cleanup PRs for the Console:&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20151">#20151</a>,&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20013">#20013</a>,&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19928">#19928</a>
</p><h3>Platform</h3><p>We have a backlog of PRs we&#x2019;re reviewing, four of which encompass the last remaining tasks before we can push the new platform on the server. We had to adjust our plans a bit for rolling out the new platform in the UI to effectively handle legacy global plugin behaviors between the old and new platform.
</p><p>PRs<br>
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">Upgrade to RxJS 6 <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/18885">#18885</a></li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/18885">
	</a>
	<li dir="ltr">More detailed messaging in the event of a plugin build failure <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20110">#20110</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Pre-commit now shows all errors across all tasks <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19271">#19271</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Properly update plugin status when license changes to prevent race condition that locked x-pack in a red state <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20018">#20018</a></li>
</ul><h3>Sharing<br></h3><p>Here are the main PRs we addressed:</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">Add&#xA0;isBeta flag to add data module schema <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20049">#20049</a> </li>
	<li dir="ltr">Continue to typescriptify dashboard and reporting <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19857">#19857</a>, <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20061">#20061</a> </li>
	<li dir="ltr"> Migrate dashboard save error from old toast message to new EUI toast <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19956">#19956</a> </li>
</ul><p>Overall,&#xA0;17 PRs had activity this last week!
</p><h3>Visualizations</h3><p>This week we merged the new Inspector (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16387">#16387</a>), which replaced the previous existing spy panels.&#xA0;
</p><p>Other PRs</p><p><span></span>
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">Fix&#xA0;filtering on other bucket outside of vislib <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19860">#19860</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Skip flaky vega test <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20127">#20127</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Fix one inspector test <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/20072">#20072</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Fix prop type check in MetricVisValue <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19991">#19991</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Fix broken migration for old gauge format <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19853">#19853</a></li>
</ul><p><strong>Until next week,</strong><br>
</p><p><strong>Kibana Team</strong>
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Keeping up with Kibana: The week of June 25th, 2018

Version 6.3.0 of Kibana has been released and is full of cool new features.

<h3>Welcome to the 6.3.0 release of Kibana!</h3>
<p>It’s Kibana release time again, and in this release in addition to the changes related to opening of X-Pack, you will see a lot of small and medium features. But don’t let their size fool you - these changes should have a large impact for the users.
</p>
<p>
	<a href="https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana">Download Kibana 6.3.0</a><br>
	<a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.3/release-notes-6.3.0.html">Kibana 6.3.0 release notes</a>
</p>
<p>You can get all the details&nbsp;in the release notes linked above, but there are a few changes which are worth highlighting:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>License management changes for opening the X-pack code</li>
	<li>Auto-complete in the Query Bar</li>
	<li>Jump back to where you left off</li>
	<li>Dashboard change to allow finer grained panel sizing</li>
	<li>Chained Input Controls</li>
	<li>Index management</li>
	<li>Interactive map support in Vega</li>
	<li>Easy way to enable Monitoring from UI</li>
	<li>Console enhancements</li>
	<li>APM watcher UI</li>
	<li>For developers: injectVars change</li>
</ul>
<p>Read more about these new features down below, or if you'd rather see them in action...
</p>
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	<img style="width: 100%; margin: auto; display: block;" class="vidyard-player-embed" src="https://play.vidyard.com/faYPf5ceygqypGt41NFFP5.jpg" data-uuid="faYPf5ceygqypGt41NFFP5" data-v="4" data-type="inline">

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<h2>License management changes for opening the X-pack code</h2>
<p>With the opening of X-Pack users by default have access to all the Basic features of Kibana X-Pack. You will see this license level reflected in the UI. Users will be able to upgrade by starting a trial or uploading a license. Users can also revert back to a Basic license if they choose to.
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltb339b2ba84f9a0be/5c3058e14657a057675ba70c/license_management.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltb339b2ba84f9a0be" alt="license management.png">
</p>
<h2>Auto-complete in the Query bar</h2>
<p>Based on the feedback we received after the initial introduction of a new experimental language for Kibana’s query bar, we have made several changes & improvements in this release. First, we have significantly simplified the syntax in order to focus on the ease of use. Second, we added autocomplete to the query bar. And finally, we have improved the search itself. To see the new features, just click the options link to the right of the query bar (or ask you Kibana admin to turn it on for you). Then when you start typing you will see suggestions for fields, values (for keyword fields) and query operators. See our <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/improving-kibanas-query-language">recent blog</a> for more on this.
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt9163969ee82cc911/5c3069a693d9791a70cd744b/autocomplete.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt9163969ee82cc911" alt="autocomplete.gif">
</p>
<h2>Jump back to where you left off</h2>
<p>In 6.3 we have added two features to make it easier for you to get back to where you left off: a “Recently viewed” section to the top of Kibana home page and recent time ranges in the time picker. In the “recently viewed” section each user will see up to 5 recently accessed searches with a pulldown to access the rest if more than 5 are available. See <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16556">PR #16556</a> for more details.
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt4a41785f6bd98cfb/5c3058d1c05f480270a74354/screencapture-localhost-5601-app-kibana-2018-05-29-15_08_51.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt4a41785f6bd98cfb" alt="screencapture-localhost-5601-app-kibana-2018-05-29-15_08_51.png">
</p>
<p>In the Time picker, user will similarly see most recent time ranges used.
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt30e0d37d5b331bae/5c3058cda253ae3e67bc85f9/recent_time_ranges.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt30e0d37d5b331bae" alt="recent time ranges.png"><br>
</p>
<h2>Dashboard change to allow finer grained panel sizing</h2>
<p>Dashboard grid height has been decreased from 100 to 20 and number of grid columns was increased from 12 to 48, which allows for a finer grained panel sizing in 6.3 version.  See <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16763">PR #16763</a> for more details.
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltd6f8972c884e9124/5c3058d9b7017c456eff09f1/6.3_dashboard.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="bltd6f8972c884e9124" alt="6.3_dashboard.gif">
</p>
<h2>Chained Input Controls</h2>
<p>This PR adds the ability to chain dropdown controls. A chained control is only enabled when all ancestor controls have values. The selectable options of a chained control are filtered by the values of all ancestor controls. See <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16407">PR #16407</a>&nbsp;or <a href="https://www.elastic.co/blog/interactive-inputs-on-kibana-dashboards">this blog</a> for more details.
</p>
<h2>Index management</h2>
<p>In this release we have added a UI for managing indexes and changing index settings. User will see all configured indexes in a table view with key settings:
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt8999906f4743048a/5c3058c6597189c90b024272/index_table.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt8999906f4743048a" alt="index table.png">
</p>
<p>When user clicks on an index, they will see further details about that index:
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt4896f1c30390dfd7/5c3058c9ca40458566ef673d/index_detail.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt4896f1c30390dfd7" alt="index detail.png">
</p>
<p>User will also be able to modify index options and take some actions directly from the UI:
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt288c8aa3f9cb56c6/5c3058bdebb7714d660270b2/index_actions.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt288c8aa3f9cb56c6" alt="index actions.png"><br>
</p>
<h2>Interactive map support in Vega</h2>
<p>In this version, we ported the Vega plugin map support into the Kibana version. Users can now pan the map and zoom to focus on different regions. See <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16512">PR #16512</a>
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltcacb9c4661173ecb/5c3058ca61a626fb0b63013a/Vega-demo-Kibana-6.3.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="bltcacb9c4661173ecb" alt="Vega-demo-Kibana-6.3.gif">
</p>
<h2>Easy way to enable Monitoring from UI</h2>
<p>With the opening of X-Pack Monitoring is now part of the out of the box installation of Kibana under the Basic license. In order to make this easy to use, we now check if there is any data captured when user visits the Monitoring page and prompt user to turn Monitoring on if it’s not on. A user with sufficient permissions will be able to turn monitoring on directly. A user without sufficient permissions, will be prompted to contact the administrator to enable monitoring.&nbsp;
</p>
<h2>Console enhancements</h2>
<p>Dev tools console auto-complete functionality is now expanded to use all Kibana and Basic X-pack APIs, same as search bar and other areas of Kibana. This ensures that auto-complete covers all use cases making the life of all Elastic Search users easier. Rejoice!
</p>
<h2>APM watcher UI</h2>
<p>For users of APM server, we've added new UI integration that allows a user to add a watcher on new error groups for each service.&nbsp;
</p>
<p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt3507cc0649ee6c9b/5c3058b829d13af10bc2ab7e/apm-watcher-integration.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt3507cc0649ee6c9b" alt="apm-watcher-integration.gif">
</p>
<h2>For developers: injectVars change</h2>
<p>In this release we have made a change to the API for making&nbsp;server information available in the browser.&nbsp;Now, instead of exposing this information as part of the plugin’s configuration object, you use a method on the server object.
</p>
<p>Before 6.3 (in your index.js)<br>
</p>
<p><span></span>
</p>
<pre>injectVars: server =&gt; {
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; const config = server.config();
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; const basePath = config.get('server.basePath');
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; const kibanaVars = server.plugins.kibana.injectVars(server);
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; return {
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; basePath,
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; };
}
</pre>
<p>In 6.3, you use server.injectUiAppVars, usually in the `init` section of the plugin object<br>
</p>
<p><span></span>
</p>
<pre>init: server =&gt; {
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; server.injectUiAppVars('yourAppId', () =&gt; {
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  const config = server.config();
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; const basePath = config.get('server.basePath');
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; return {
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; basePath,
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; };
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }
}
</pre>
<p>See&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17485">PR #17485</a>&nbsp;for more details.<br>
</p>
<h3><span></span>Try it Out</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana">Download Kibana 6.3.0</a> and try out the new features. Let us know what you think on Twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/elastic">@elastic</a>) or in our <a href="https://discuss.elastic.co/c/kibana">forum</a>. You can report any problems on the <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues">Github issues page</a>.
</p>

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Kibana 6.3.0 is released

New One-click Sample Data experience and exciting happenings in Canvas.

<html><head></head><body><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e51d0411-889b-eb6a-5abf-d29705f68223"></span>
</p><h4>Welcome to Keeping up with Kibana! This is a series of posts on new developments in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events.</h4><p><br>
</p><h2>One-click sample data</h2><p>The highlight of this week is the new Sample Data set on the home page. This new feature&#xA0;allows for a one-click getting started experience users new to Kibana. Users can load a constructed Flight data set that includes a pre-packaged dashboard and&#xA0;experiment with Kibana without having to go through the process of loading data themselves. Here is what it looks like after loading:<img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt3f0968e7e0277ca2/5c30595925a401fc6fe4f515/Screen_Shot_2018-05-30_at_12.48.57_PM.png" data-sys-asset-uid="blt3f0968e7e0277ca2" alt="Screen Shot 2018-05-30 at 12.48.57 PM.png" width="979" height="514" style="width: 979px; height: 514px;">
</p><p>Clicking the &quot;Launch&quot; button shows the pre-packaged dashboard:
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltdf94568915cdff18/5c3059563fdf8ce26f0c08e3/Screen_Shot_2018-05-30_at_12.49.58_PM.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltdf94568915cdff18" alt="Screen Shot 2018-05-30 at 12.49.58 PM.png" width="975" height="513" style="width: 975px; height: 513px;">
</p><p>See&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17807">17807</a>&#xA0;for more details.
</p><h2>Canvas technology preview</h2><p>Canvas is getting a facelift!
</p><p>In the oncoming weeks, we&apos;re converting all our UI components to EUI (Elastic&apos;s in-house UI framework). Most recently we merged a few changes to the workpad header as well as workpad &amp; page settings for the next release!&#xA0;Here&apos;s a sample of what&apos;s in store:
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltd58705ce446a50c4/5c305965ebb7714d660270c4/May28_canvas_facelift.png" data-sys-asset-uid="bltd58705ce446a50c4" alt="May28 canvas facelift.png">
</p><p>We are also working on new layout engine that will let you easily move, resize and rotate elements in Canvas. The version we have now is just ok, but we&apos;ve been working on an all new version that is looking <em>amazing</em>. The first iteration of it will be functionality identical to the current system, with the addition of keyboard commands, but our team has built all sorts of awesome stuff under the covers. Like these rad 3D transforms:
</p><p><img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt2004309c7b6ede6c/5c305963ca40458566ef6749/May28-canvas_layout_engine.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt2004309c7b6ede6c" alt="May28-canvas layout engine.gif" width="688" height="335" style="width: 688px; height: 335px;">
</p><p>Check out more Canvas news <a href="http://canvas.elastic.co/">here</a></p><h2>Other enhancements and bug fixes</h2><h4>Security</h4><p>Spaces:&#xA0; we are making progress on Reactifying the existing role management screen.
</p><p>RBAC: We&#x2019;re in the process of splitting out the platform specific PRs that enable RBAC. A&#xA0;number of them have been merged, others are still in review, and a few more are soon to come.
</p><ul>
	<li>Introduced the concept of SavedObjectRepository which will assist with implementing spaces and securing the SavedObjectsClient for RBAC <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19013">#19013</a></li>
	<li>Implemented consistent multi-type SavedObjectsClient.find which is currently used by saved objects management and will allow us to secure it for RBAC <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19231">#19231</a></li>
</ul><h4>Design</h4><p>On the EUI front, we are making good progress making EUI fully compatible with React 16.3. We have also added the much requested <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/872">Button Groups / Toggles</a>.
</p><p>We also:
</p><ul>
	<li>Updated EuiSearchBar to React 16.3 lifecycle <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/863">#863</a></li>
	<li>Fixed EuiComboBox focus trap <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/866">#866</a></li>
	<li>Added support for custom props for rows in EuiBasicTable and EuiInMemoryTable. <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/869">#869</a></li>
	<li>Made&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+merged%3A%3E%3D2018-05-19">15 more small changes</a></li>
</ul><h4>Platform</h4><ul>
	<li>Option to run Kibana from build for CI <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19125">#19125</a></li>
	<li>Removed custom tslint overrides for kbn-system-loader <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19336">#19336</a></li>
	<li>Removed custom tslint overrides for kbn-pm <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19335">#19335</a></li>
	<li>Removed the tslint requirement to prefix interfaces with an `I` <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19402">#19402</a></li>
	<li>Upgraded eslint-plugin-no-unsanitized to support runtime `import`, which we&#x2019;ll need for application bundles in the new platform <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19315">#19315</a></li>
</ul><h4>Operations</h4><p style="margin-left: 20px;">Added validation of the current node version <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19154">#19154</a>
</p><h4>Sharing enhancements and bug fixes</h4><ul>
	<li>Converted Dashboard &#x201C;Add Panel&#x201D; to EUI PR 17374</li>
	<li>Fixed copy to clipboard IE bug PR 19281</li>
</ul><h4>Visualizations bug fixes</h4><ul>
	<li>Axis Labels Filter - better geometry assessment <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16130">#16130</a></li>
	<li>Fixed rendering markdown when updating open in new tab setting <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19356">#19356</a></li>
	<li>Don&apos;t show toast warning in filter agg <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19255">#19255</a></li>
	<li>Fixed flaky load discover search <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19265">#19265</a></li>
</ul><h4>Management</h4><ul>
	<li>Account for cluster level settings for Watcher UI <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19121">#19121</a></li>
	<li>Saved objects UI in React! <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17426">#17426</a>, <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/19193">#19193</a></li>
	<li>Ensure index patterns leverage existing optimistic concurrency <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/18937">#18937</a></li>
</ul><p><strong>Until next week,</strong>
</p><p><strong>Kibana Team</strong>
</p></body></html>

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Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for May 28, 2018

Weekly update from Kibana team for the week of April 30, 2018.

<p dir="ltr">Welcome to&nbsp;<em>Keeping up with Kibana!&nbsp;</em>This is a series of posts on new developments&nbsp;in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events.
</p><p dir="ltr">Kibana team is busy preparing for the next point release -- 6.3 is coming soon!&nbsp;But that is not the only thing we’ve been working on this week. In parallel, we are continuing to add features for the next version.&nbsp;
</p><p dir="ltr"><strong>Improvements to the EUI framework</strong><br>
</p><p dir="ltr">Here are some recent PRs in the <a href="https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/">Elastic UI Framework</a>. You'll&nbsp;find the complete list in our <a href="https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/package/changelog">changelog</a>.
</p><ul>
	<li>Add EuiEmptyPrompt component for creating empty states <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/711">#711</a></li>
	<li>Add EuiTabbedContent component for managing tab content&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/issues/758">#758</a></li>
	<li>Allow EuiContextMenuPanels to update when their children changes <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/710">#710</a></li>
	<li>Fixed issues with tables&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/759">#759</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/759">#709</a></li>
	<li>Add EuiBetaBadge component for indicating content is in a Beta release&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/705">#705</a></li>
	<li>Add buttons for clearing and opening/closing the EuiComboBox&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/698">#698</a></li>
	<li>Add EuiDescriptiveFormRow component for displaying help text&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/707">#707</a></li>
</ul><p><strong>Added significant terms to tag cloud visualizations</strong>
</p><p dir="ltr">
	We have also added support for significant term aggregations s to tag cloud visualizations (<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17770">#17770</a>). Significant terms is a commonly used method of identifying the most interesting emerging topics. This feature builds on Kibana's core strength of&nbsp;providing&nbsp;visuals within the context of a query. You'll&nbsp;see significant terms adjust as the&nbsp;user searches across a dashboard.
</p><p dir="ltr">
	<img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/nYET-VxboU3gazHntGo0lypps6ybSMglcqv7zk8hbgRU4GfaKxe9nv6pIsNMkus1SSCfHIgbGZBiRKxvQ6hGeEq96AEVjdCgTw4DdWkyG_pLCfemtNGsGtub8sgECdM04zGC0tpN" style="float: left; width: 40%; margin-right: 1%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">
	<img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/7DYKhQC5WzvGx54Vn9m2MWOaUJlUEombO5hmdFtS6uOkQcZExyCrl1wRjBvoy0b78apD5t2O9AqtVcnv02Yq9JejOl_3C5XS-MiqUJMMIt90cVezg2G3eKJYcS15eIsS48los6oz" style="float: left; width: 40%; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1%;">
</p><p style="clear: both;"><br>
</p><p dir="ltr"><strong>Updates to Kibana apps</strong>
</p><p dir="ltr">We continue&nbsp;to make improvements to the Kibana apps:
</p><ul>
	<li dir="ltr">Converted page that lists dashboards to the EUI Framework&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16967">#16967</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Added ability to configure Kibana coordinate maps with multiple color ramps&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/18586">#18586</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Added support for HTML tooltips in Vega&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17632">#17632</a></li>
	<li dir="ltr">Added ability to show/hide the filter bar in the Discovery app, thanks to a community contributor&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17161">#17161</a></li>
</ul><p dir="ltr">Until next time,
	<br>
	Raya @Kibana
</p>

Keeping up with Kibana: Week of April 30, 2018

This is a weekly update on what's new in the Kibana open source project.

<html><head></head><body><p>Welcome to&#xA0;<em>Keeping up with Kibana!&#xA0;</em>This is a series of posts on new developments&#xA0;in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events.
</p><p>It&apos;s been a while since the last update, so there is a lot to catch up on!
</p><h3>EUIfication Process Continues<br></h3><p><span></span>Design team is busy creating new components and improving existing ones. Notable additions lately are the new <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/567" target="_blank">EUI Combo Box</a>&#xA0;and support for&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/585" target="_blank">expandable rows to basic EUIBasicTable</a>:
</p><p>
	<img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/bltdf60a504c811e9d0/5c3069ad3fdf8ce26f0c0915/combo_box.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="bltdf60a504c811e9d0" alt="combo_box.gif" style="float: left; width: 30%; margin-right: 1%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">
	<img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt9bb6e808e674cc9f/5c3069aca253ae3e67bc863b/expanding_rows.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt9bb6e808e674cc9f" alt="expanding rows.gif" "="" style="float: left; width: 60%; margin-right: 1%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">
</p><h5>Also<br>
</h5><ul>
	<li>Added EuiIconTip&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/528" target="_blank">#528</a></li>
	<li>And allowed color to be passed in for EuiIconTip&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/580&#xA0;" target="_blank">#580</a> <a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/580&#xA0;">&#xA0;</a></li>
	<li>Updated components to support both href and onClick&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/554" target="_blank">#554</a></li>
	<li>Updated calculatePopoverPosition to seek the position with the largest amount of visible surface area of the popover.&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/550" target="_blank">#550</a></li>
	<li>Docs homepage update, colors guideline + misc fixes&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/eui/pull/494" target="_blank">#494</a></li>
	<li>Lots of bug fixes with a focus on responsiveness &amp; accessibility</li>
</ul><h3>More Maps</h3><p>We have been working hard to clean&#xA0;up and extend map data in the Elastic Map Service and to make other improvements to maps functionality and documentation.
</p><ul>
	<li>Maps now restricts/allows zoom correctly when changing configuration during editing <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17367">#17367</a></li>
	<li>Tilemap configurations are now added as an option in addition to the EMS-settings&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17367">#17367</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/17367"></a>World layer now has Curacao and Netherlands Antilles (we know you were worried)&#xA0;<a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/16997">#16997</a></li>
	<li>EMS now has better default ordering of vector layers <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17197">#17197</a></li>
</ul><h3> Kibana query language auto-complete<br>
</h3><p>And last (but certainly not least!) Kibana will offer <a href="https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/15945" target="_blank">suggestions for field names, operators, values, and conjunctions.</a></p><p> <br>
	<img src="https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/bltefdd0b53724fa2ce/blt9163969ee82cc911/5c3069a693d9791a70cd744b/autocomplete.gif" data-sys-asset-uid="blt9163969ee82cc911" alt="autocomplete.gif" "="">
</p><p>Happy April! </p><p><br><br></p><p>Raya</p></body></html>

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