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Kibana 7.11.0edit

For detailed information about the 7.11.0 release, review the Deprecations, Enhancements, and Bug fixes. For the 7.11.0 breaking changes, refer to breaking changes in 7.11.

Deprecationsedit

Lens and visualizations
  • Deprecates visualization:colorMapping advanced setting #83372
Management
  • Deprecates kibana.index setting #83988
  • Deprecates reporting.index setting #84005
  • Deprecates xpack.task_manager.index setting #84155
Security
  • Deprecates disabling the spaces plugin #83984
  • Deprecates disabling the security plugin #85159

Enhancementsedit

Alerting
  • Updates alert type selection layout to rows instead of grid #73665
  • Back Button on Add Connector Flyout #80160
  • Disables "Save" button for Alerts with broken Connectors #80579
  • Adds UI notifier to indicate secret fields and to remember / reenter values #80657
  • Adds defaultActionMessage to index threshold alert UI type definition #80936
  • Don’t wait for health check before showing Create Alert flyout #80996
  • Adds hasAuth to Webhook Configuration to avoid confusing UX #81390
  • Grouped list of alert types using producers in Types filter of Alerts tab #81876
  • Adds Alerts & Actions to the app directory #81902
  • Adds a link to documentation in the alerts and actions management UI #81909
  • Adds an Run When field in the alert flyout to assign the action to an Action Group #82472
  • Displays Action Group in Alert Details #82645
  • Removes placeholders and updates validation messages on connector forms #82734
  • Notify only on action group change #82969
  • Adds ability to assign alert actions to resolved action group in UI #83139
  • Microsoft Teams connector #83169
  • Adds action group and date to mustache template variables for actions #83195
  • Updates widths on columns in Alert Detail view #83823
  • Escaping is now off for most action parameters, except those that need per-action escaping, including the Slack, Email, and Webhook action parameters #83919
  • Adds ECS audit events for alerts and actions plugins #84113
  • Adds footer to all emails sent by Kibana email connector with a link to open Kibana or to the alert details page #84371
  • Adds default dedupKey value as an {{alertInstanceId}} to provide grouping functionality for PagerDuty incidents #84598
APM
  • Transition to Elastic charts for all relevant APM charts #80298
  • APM Experiments settings #81554
  • APM index settings import/export in saved-object management #82784
  • Service overview: Dependencies table #83416
  • Service overview: Transactions table #83429
  • Latency chart for overview #84634
  • Add APM agent config options #84678
  • Updates header icons #84760
  • Adds log_level/sanitize_field_names config options to Python Agent #84810
  • Adds ignore_unavailable to avoid querying closed indices #84813
  • Adds sanitize_field_names and transaction_ignore_urls config options to Ruby agent #85646
  • Adds transaction_ignore_urls as central config #85734
  • Service overview: Instances table #85770
  • APM Alerts Preview charts #85868
Canvas
  • Layout option for generating full-page Canvas reports #84959
Dashboard
  • Library Notification Popover #79581
  • Url Drilldown basic template helpers #80500
  • Edit Panel Title On Click #81076
  • Dashboards connected via drilldowns are now exported or copied to a different space together #82602
  • Panel toolbar #83342
  • Export CSV action for Lens embeddables in dashboard #83654
  • ExternalUrl service was integrated with URL Drilldown #85779
Discover
  • Adds new responsive layout #83633
Elastic Security Solution
For the Elastic Security Solution 7.11.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
Fleet
Lens and visualizations
  • Adds categorical color palettes in Lens #75309
  • Adds color for dimension trigger in Lens #76871
  • Adds median operation in Lens #79453
  • Improves the range formatter #80132
  • Adds drag support within dimension group to reorder in Lens #80547
  • Renames X/Y axis to horizontal/vertical in Lens #80991
  • Adds value labels in Lens bar charts #81776
  • Enables "Other" bucket for top values operation in Lens #82704
  • Adds CSV Export for Lens #83430
  • Adds "Last value" operation to Lens #83437
  • Adds sorting to Lens data tables #84435
  • Adds in-product help to Lens fields list #85544
  • Adds toggle to height data table export button #70801
  • Adds support for HDR percentiles in TSVB visualizations #78306
  • Displays epoch on a more human readable format for TSVB #79110
  • Adds Ignore global filters to series options in TSVB #79337
  • Updates New visualization window #79627
  • Adds textTruncate option for tooltips #80524
  • Renames positive rate to counter rate #80939
  • Use "histogram:maxBars" and "histogram:barTarget" advanced settings in TSVB #83628
  • Fixes Graph saved object references #85295
  • Allow sorting by median #79839
Logs
  • Syncs logs timerange with wider Kibana #79444
  • Displays progress for asynchronous loading of the log entry fly-out content and cancels pending requests when closing the fly-out #83906
Machine Learning
  • Data frame analytics: Scatterplot matrix for outlier detection #73419
  • Adds space aware jobs #77916
  • Adds probability values in decision path visualization for classification data frame analytics #80229
  • DFAnalytics Creation: update form to handle num_top_classes setting for all classes #80751
  • DF Analytics wizard: ensure user can set mml manually or select to use given estimate #81078
  • Adds annotation markers to time series brush area to indicate annotations exist outside of selected range #81490
  • Configure sorting for partition values on Single Metric Viewer #81510
  • Adds option for anomaly charts for metric detector should plot min, mean or max as appropriate #81662
  • Data frame analytics: Adds map view #81666
  • Improves support for script and aggregation fields in anomaly detection jobs #81923
  • Adds space aware jobs (#77916) #82446
  • Job saved objects initialization #82639
  • Adds non-space aware checks for existing jobs #82814
  • Additional job spaces initialization #83127
  • Persisted URL state for the "Anomaly detection jobs" page #83149
  • Performance improvements to annotations editing in Single Metric Viewer & buttons placement #83216
  • Space management UI #83320
  • Persisted URL state for the Data frame analytics jobs and models pages #83439
  • Improves browser history navigation #83792
  • Persisted URL state for Anomalies table #84314
  • Persisted URL state for Data Frame Analytics Exploration page #84499
  • Improves messaging and support for datafeed using aggregated and scripted fields #84594
  • Adds security_linux and security_windows Modules #85065
  • Data Frame Analytics: check space permissions before deleting jobs #85495
  • Redesign index-based Data Visualizer #85726
  • Adds runtime_mappings to job wizards #85817
Management
  • Allows custom name for fields via index pattern field management #70039
  • In index pattern management - Refresh button removed as index pattern field lists are refreshed when index patterns are loaded, such as on page load or when moving between kibana apps #82223
  • Painless Lab in DevTools now supports autocompletion for keywords, and class and class members for the Painless language based on a given context #80577
  • Transforms: Remove index field limitation for custom query #81467
  • In the Index Management app, you can now click a data stream index lifecycle policy and view it in the Index Lifecycle Policies app #82165
  • Use monacco editor in the inspector request panel #82272
  • In the Index Management app, you can now click a data stream index template and view it on the Index Templates tab #82592
  • In the Index Management app, data streams managed by Fleet can now be identified by a Managed label #83049
  • In the Index Management app, buttons to delete a data stream are now controlled by user privileges #83573
  • Index Patterns service now has public HTTP API, which third parties can use to manage index patterns, index pattern field metadata, and scripted fields #83576
  • The ILM policy UI now supports configuring searchable snapshot in the cold and hot phases #83783
  • Adds shrink field to hot phase #84087
  • Index and component templates can now be configured with runtime fields in their mappings #84184
  • The Ingest Node Pipelines UI now supports autocompletion for the Painless language when defining a condition for a processor, ane when defining a source for a script processor #84554
  • In the Index Management app, hidden data streams are now displayed and indicated by a label #85028
  • Aligns form fields in ILM with ESUI standards #85143
  • Moves error and loading notices for data allocation #85154
  • Index Lifecycle Management app now includes readonly action #85419
  • Adds support for latest function #85784
  • Updates logstash pipeline management to use system index APIs #80405
  • Reintroduce "Add support for runtime field types to mappings editor" #79940
  • Form UI #81766
Maps
  • Geo line source #76572
  • Supports envelope #80614
  • Adds query bar inputs to geo threshold alerts tracked points & boundaries #80871
  • Support by value saved objects #82486
  • Show icon when layer is filtered by time and allow layers to ignore global time range #83006
  • Saved object tagging #83197
  • Updates style when metrics change #83586
  • Support URL drilldowns #83732
  • Background color map setting #83822
  • Adds geo containment tracking alert type #84151
  • Style by percentiles #84291
  • Use index-pattern field display name in UX #84945
  • Adds percentile #85367
  • Adds on-prem EMS config #82525
Metrics
  • Adds endpoint for Metrics API #81693
  • Adds full custom metric UI to inventory alerts #81929
  • Adds basic interaction and shell for node details overlay #82013
  • Adds metrics to node details #83357
  • Don’t show loading screen during auto-reload #83376
  • Adds logs to node details #83433
  • Adds Process tab to Enhanced Node Details #83477
  • Implements Resolved action group in Metrics alerts #83687
  • Adds metadata tab to node details flyout #84454
  • Fixes double loading of inventory page when there’s a default view #84843
  • Synch time for metrics ui Kibana time #85502
Monitoring
  • Thread pool rejections alert #79433
  • Improves Collector fetch API #79595
  • Usage collection add saved objects client to collector fetch context #80554
  • Some progress on making alerts better in the UI #81569
  • CCR read exceptions alert #85908
Operations
  • Starting in 8.0, deb and rpm packages will restart on upgrade by default #82049
  • Adds a new CLI for generating encryption keys used by Kibana #82838
  • Adds deb and rpm packages for ARM64 #84364
  • Upgrades the major Node.js version used by and shipped with Kibana from v12 to v14 #83425
  • Adds experimental support for configuring CORS policy #84316
Platform
  • Apply back pressure in Task Manager whenever Elasticsearch responds with a 429 #75666
  • Adds basic observability into Task Manager’s runtime operations #77868
  • Custom labels for ranges #79628
  • Adds cumulative sum expression function #80129
  • Adds a row click trigger to Lens embeddable for datatable expression renderer #83167
  • Adds search request batching using bfetch #83418 and #84043
  • Normalize values by time unit #83904
  • Navigation search now includes deep links into various applications, allowing you to quickly navigate directly to the screens you need most #83380
  • Adds tags UI to search results #85084
Querying & Filtering
  • Use new Search API for rollup search #83275
Security
  • Adds audit logging events and event filteringhttps://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/74640[#74640]
  • Allow the default space to be accessed via /s/default #77109
  • Omit runtime fields from FLS suggestions #78330
  • Adds the ability to log in to Kibana anonymously without using any 3rd-party reverse proxy workarounds #79985
  • Adds the ability to specify session timeout settings for every provider separately #82583
  • Adds cloud links to user menu #82803
  • Users are now redirected back to the original URL after they log in again #84229
Uptime
  • Upgrades the major Node.js version used by and shipped with Kibana from v10 to v12 #61587
  • Persist date range between uptime and other apps #79418
  • Prompt for confirmation when saving alert with no action #79892
  • Applies the active timefilter onto the autocomplete requests to fix performance issues #81515
  • Adds description and documentation link in alert flyout #81526
  • Put APM links into header action menu #82292
  • Displays response headers for a ping #82332
  • APM header changes #82870
  • Uptime overview overhaul #83406
  • Waterfall view #84821
  • Display tags in monitor list and details page #85168

Bug fixesedit

Alerting
  • Don’t change previousStartedAt when alert execution fails #81388
  • Enables the EventLog Client to query across ILM versions of the .event-log index #81920
  • Used SO for saving the API key IDs that should be deleted #82211
  • Fixes pagination in connectors list #83638
  • Prevents errors in Action and Alert Type UIs from cascading through Alerts Management #83925
  • Fixes buggy default message behaviour #84202
  • Revert the Revert of "[Alerting] renames Resolved action group to Recovered (#84123)" #84662
  • Fixes bug where severity is auto selected but not applied to the action in PagerDuty #84891
  • Fixes bug when switching between threshold comparators #85844
  • Set refresh: false when partially updating the alert’s execution status #86316
  • Sort action type filters in alerts list and hide case action type #86360
  • Fixes webhook errror messages to be more specific #87044
  • Shift polling interval by random amount when Task Manager experiences consistent claim version conflicts #88020
APM
  • Fixes link to upgrade assistant #82138
  • Filtering by "Type" on error overview sometimes causes an error #82750
  • Fixes broken link to ML when time range is not set #85976
  • Set default for agent icons #86023
  • Adds range query to service map trace walk #86631
  • Filter out service nodes if there are no metrics #86639
  • Truncate long service names in Trace overview #86759
  • "View job" link from latency charts leads to a malfunctioning page #86788
  • transactionType should be required on service-specific endpoints #86893
  • Custom links can still be created with a read only user. #87089
  • Toggle action and service icon menus #87220
  • Blank page when selecting a future time range #87298
  • Fixes alert creation items being available for readonly users #87343
  • Fixes missing datepicker when service maps has no data #87393
  • Explicitly set environment for cross-service links #87481
  • Optimize anomaly data loading strategy #87522
  • Fixes a bug that would sometimes cause the Kibana process to crash with Error: Failed to run task "apm-telemetry-task" as it is currently running #87645
  • Fixes stale custom links list after creating new link #87932
  • Fixes alerting expression popovers positions on scroll #88085
  • Hide “Create configuration” for users without write access #88149
  • Hide recording setting from from RUM agents #88152
  • Reset time range if either value changes #88186
Dashboard
  • Fixes cloning panels reactive issue #74253
  • Fixes dashboard "snapshot share" is not sharing panel state in view mode #79837
  • Deangularize Dashboard #82909
  • Fixes Unlink Action via Rollback of ReplacePanel #83873
  • Transition Embeddable State Transfer to Session Storage #85688
  • Fixes Add From Library Flyout Staying Open #86698
Discover
  • Fixes double fetching of saved search embeddable #84060
  • Fixes navigating back when changing index pattern #84061
Elastic Security Solution
For the Elastic Security Solution 7.11.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
Fleet
  • Fixes duplicate ingest pipeline refs #82078
Lens and visualizations
  • Do not reset formatting when switching between custom ranges and auto histogram #82694
  • Makes incomplete switches possible #83519
  • Fixes bug causing bar charts to render bars at the wrong width #83545
  • Fixes label input debouncing #84121
  • Fixes Treemap outer labels with transparent background #84245
  • Line Visualization improper scaling can result in gaps #80135
  • Handle correctly {{key}} placeholder on series name #81748
  • Fixes "other bucket" for fields containing dashes #81981
  • Disable using top_hits in pipeline aggregations #82278
  • Fixes Moving Avg help link in Vis Editor #82423
  • TSVB doesn’t communicate it’s index-patterns to dashboard #82964
  • Offset option doesn’t work properly for some values #83051
  • Remove extra column in split mode #83193
  • Table tab not working with rollup indexes #83635
  • Filter bar in Vega is not usable with non default index pattern. #84090
  • TSVB field list performance issue on using annotations #84407
  • Gauge visualization can no longer be clicked to filter on values since Kibana 7.10.0 #84768
  • Wrong x-axis formatting if "dateFormat" configuration property is not specified #84899
  • Date histogram timestamps on daily are getting displayed as epoch times #85565
  • Fixes request with disabled aggregation #85696
  • Visualize charts flicker on each change #86888
Logs
  • Fixes selection of suggested field names in the logs stream query bar #85973
  • Fixes initial selection of log threshold alert condition field if missing from mapping #86488
Machine Learning
  • Fixes exclude frequent in advanced wizard (#81121) #81154
  • Updating analysis config schema (#82703) #82714
  • Data Frame Analytics Classification results view: fix Actual label #86060
  • Anomaly Detection: Fix validation error when no data in index. #86114
  • DFA results view: ensure results not stuck in loading state when no docs returned from text search #86178
  • Fix sort order of data recognizer module cards #86250
  • Fixes displaying of setup errors in recognizer wizard #86430
  • Fixes alignment of values in data frame analytics results view badges #86621
  • Fixes cloning of partition field in per-partition categorization jobs #86635
  • Fix Single Metric Viewer y domain extending beyond the visible focus area #86655
  • Ensure job group badge fonts are same color #86674
  • Anomaly Detection jobs list: fix edit groups popup #86836
Management
  • Fixes issues in Index Management and ILM when resources have special characters in names #80835
  • Fixes ilm navigation #81664
  • Fixes a bug in the Watcher UI where the search input cleared after 1 minute of inactivity, causing a user to lose the filtered results #82651
  • Fixes a bug in the Index Templates UI where editing an index template with a deprecated type defined and no mapped fields could remove the type on save #82987
  • Grokdebugger correctly passes Elasticsearch errors to the Kibana UI #83036
  • Fixes an issue in the Snapshot and Restore UI, where editing a Snapshot Lifecycle Management policy may fail if it contains a previous snapshot failure with a large payload content #83928
  • Reset to default for empty strings #85137
  • Fixes esaggs missing default time field scenario in Lens #85754
  • Transforms: Support for missing_bucket in transform advanced pivot editor #85758
  • Documentation links in the Index Lifecycle Management UI have been updated #87216
  • Fixes a bug causing the index pattern override selection to be cleared when switching page while performing a legacy format saved object import #81621
  • Fixes a UI error when attempting to copy a saved object when a user only has Read access to the Default space #81828
  • Fixes index pattern recreation when removing experimental packages #81940
  • Fixes logstash central pipeline management test #83281
Maps
  • Fixes feature tooltip remains open when zoom level change hides layer #81373
  • Fixes geojson upload diacritic handling #83122
  • Always initialize routes on server-startup #84806
  • Fixes multi-select query from Controls visualization not always getting applied to map in dashboard #87310
  • Fixes zooming while drawing shape filter logs errors in console #88413
Metrics
  • Refactor Observability Overview for Performance #84955
  • Hide drawer on inventory #85503
Monitoring
  • Iterate over saved object & index patterns pages to collect telemetry results #73077
  • Fixes bug in logs UI link #80943
  • Uses asCurrentUser in getClusterUuid #82908
  • Uses fetchClustersRange #87882
  • Change cloud messaging on no data page #88375
Operations
  • Fixes the logging destination for systemd installations and and updates the sysv filename to be consistent with other stack products #74896
  • Create keystore after installation #76465
  • Wrap blocked paths in quotes #83560
Platform
  • Adds loading indicator during debounce time #80158
  • Mark task as failed if maxAttempts has been met. #80681
  • Reactively disable Task Manager lifecycle when core services become unavailable #81779
  • Schedule retry based on schedule on recurring tasks #83682
Querying & Filtering
  • KQL autocomplete suggestions for field values will now have backslashes properly escaped #85457
Security
  • Prevent Kerberos and PKI providers from initiating a new session for unauthenticated XHR/API requests #82817
  • Fixes incomplete client cert chain when using PKI authentication with the login selector #88229
Uptime
  • Monitor status alert use url as instance #81736
  • Removes Connector flyouts after usage #82126
  • User experience display low values #86026
  • Simple monitor status alert fix for page duty and other connectors #87460
  • Fixes kuery bar dark theme #87827
  • Clear ping state when PingList component in unmounted #88321
  • UX use replace history instead of push on first load #88586
  • Fixes impacted page load errors #88597
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