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Kibana 8.18.2

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Kibana 8.18.2

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The 8.18.2 release includes the following known issues and fixes.

Known issues

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Observability AI assistant gets stuck in a loop when attempting to call the execute_connector function.

Details
The Observability AI assistant gets stuck in a loop when calling the execute_connector function. Instead of completing queries, it times out with the error message Failed to parse function call arguments when converting messages for inference: SyntaxError: Unexpected non-whitespace character after JSON at position 72 and Error: Tool call arguments for execute_connector (...) were invalid.

Upgrading Kibana from 8.x to 8.18.2 fails due to a configuration conflict in the kibana.yml file.

Details
Upgrading Kibana from version 8.x to 8.18.2 fails due to a configuration conflict if xpack.alerting.cancelAlertsOnRuleTimeout is set to false in the kibana.yml file. Kibana fails to boot and shows a fatal error message in the Kibana logs that’s similar to the following:

FATAL Error: Rule type "transform_health" cannot have both cancelAlertsOnRuleTimeout set to false and autoRecoverAlerts set to true.

This failure occurs when the xpack.alerting.cancelAlertsOnRuleTimeout setting is set to false, which is incompatible with the default configuration of an internal setting (autoRecoverAlerts) in 8.18.2.

Workaround
To temporarily resolve the issue and allow the upgrade to proceed, follow these steps:

  1. Remove the xpack.alerting.cancelAlertsOnRuleTimeout: false setting from the kibana.yml file.
  2. Restart Kibana to apply the changes.

Fixes

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Dashboards and Visualizations
  • Fixes success message and auto-scroll behavior after adding a panel to a dashboard from the library (#220122).
  • Allows ES|QL queries to suggest a chart even when there is no data returned from a query. (#218085).
Elastic Observability Solution
  • Updates SLO created in a previous version to handle createdBy and updatedBy fields in an ingest pipeline (#221158).
  • Fixes errors in error_marker.tsx to support Mobile Services (#220424).
Elastic Security solution
For the Elastic Security 8.18.2 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
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