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Kibana 8.18.1

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Kibana 8.18.1

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The 8.18.1 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. See our security advisory for more details.

The 8.18.1 release includes the following enhancements and fixes.

Known issues

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Observability AI assistant Knowledge Base entries with empty text can lead to Kibana OOM or restarts.

Details
The semantic text migration can cause excessive traffic to a cluster and might eventually cause the Kibana instance to crash due to OOM, together with increase of requests to Elasticsearch & ML nodes.

The problem can occur when there is one or more empty text Knowledge Base documents.

The migration script does not handle this scenario and will indefinitely update the same document.

Because the document update involves semantic_text an ML node is kept warm further increasing the costs.

The issue involves semantic_text field type (and thus the semantic_text migration which is causing this issue), introduced in the knowledge base feature in 8.17.

Workaround

Pause the Kibana instance if possible. If not possible, skip this step.

Run a dry run query to identify if you have empty Knowledge Base documents. If you have at least 1 hit, you can be affected by the problem.

GET .kibana-observability-ai-assistant-kb/_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [{ "exists": { "field": "text" }}],
      "must_not": [ { "wildcard": { "text": "*" } }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Execute the deletion. For extra safety, you might want to trigger a snapshot before executing it.

POST .kibana-observability-ai-assistant-kb/_delete_by_query
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": [{ "exists": { "field": "text" }}],
      "must_not": [ { "wildcard": { "text": "*" } }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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Enhancements

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Elastic Security solution: For the Elastic Security 8.18.1 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.

Fixes

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Dashboards and Visualizations

Syncs the dashboard ES|QL query and filters with the corresponding visualization query in Lens (#218997).
Correctly formats keywords in metric visualizations (#218233).
When exploring a dashboard, the request inspector now shows the correct request and response in any successful scenario (#216519).

Discover

Fixes incorrect behavior for requests on fields where the Allow hidden and system indices (allow_hidden) option of the data view could be ignored (#217628).
Fixes the result of the Generate CSV report action for ES|QL panels (#216325).

Elastic Observability Solution

Prevents unnecessary suggestion requests when interacting with inputs on the APM Custom Links page (#218927).
Filters out null values from sourceDataStreams (#218772).
Fixes a bug with navigating to the Search Connectors tab in the AI Assistant Settings (#217749).
Improves aria-label attributes for correlations (#217512).

Elastic Security solution

For the Elastic Security 8.18.1 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.

Kibana platform

Fixes broken icons in integrations coming from the Home plugin (#219206).

Kibana security

Removes check for unused connector role (#219358).

Machine Learning

Fixes error when switching Service providers in the Inference Endpoint flyout (#219020).
Corrects quotes in ES|QL queries for function arguments (#217680).

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