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Enhancements and bug fixes
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editFor detailed information about the 8.8.0 release, review the enhancements and bug fixes.
Enhancements
edit- Alerting
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- Adds the ability to predefine IDs when you create connectors #155392
- Adds the ability to allow the footer added to emails sent from Kibana alerting rules to NOT be added #154919
- Adds conditional actions UI for timeframe #153944
- Adds a single view in the app function for rule actions variables and UI page #148671
- APM
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- Adds error grouping key filter in error count rule type #155410
- Adds transaction name filter in failed transaction rate rule type #155405
- Replaces most used charts with the Lens embeddable #155026
- Adds transaction name filter in latency threshold rule #154241
- Adds Unified Search for APM #153842
- Adds migratation for the remaining tx-based visualizations #153375
- Adds migration for the tx latency chart and group stats to rollups/service metrics #153162
- Disables agent configuration creation for opentelemetry agents #150697
- Cases
- Dashboard
- Discover
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- Adds the ability to allow wildcards in field search #155540
- Adds a loading indicator during Discover table updates #155505
- Adds drag & drop capabilities for adding columns to the table #153538
- Adds a progress indicator when a saved search embeddable is updating #152342
- Adds inline data fetching errors #152311
- Adds a loading indicator for the classic table embeddable #152072
- Adds the ability to suppress "Missing index" toasts #149625
- Elastic Security
- For the Elastic Security 8.8.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
- Enterprise Search
- For the Elastic Enterprise Search 8.8.0 release information, refer to Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation Release notes.
- Fleet
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- Adds support for fields of type aggregate_metric_double #154920
- Adds overview dashboards in fleet #154914
- Adds raw status to Agent details UI #154826
- Adds support for dynamic_namespace and dynamic_dataset #154732
- Adds the ability to show pipelines and mappings editor for input packages #154077
- Adds placeholder to integration select field #153927
- Adds the ability to show integration subcategories #153591
- Adds the ability to create and update the package policy API return 409 conflict when names are not unique #153533
- Adds the ability to display policy changes in Agent activity #153237
- Adds the ability to display errors in Agent activity with link to Logs #152583
- Adds support for select type in integrations #152550
- Adds the ability to make spaces plugin optional #152115
- Adds proxy ssl key and certificate to agent policy #152005
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Adds
_metafieldhas_experimental_data_stream_indexing_features#151853 - Adds the ability to create templates and pipelines when updating package of a single package policy from type integration to input #150199
- Adds user’s secondary authorization to Transforms #154665
- Infrastructure
- Adds Memory Available Graph To Hosts View #151863
- Lens & Visualizations
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- Adds the ability to sync the partition legend order with the filters order in Lens #154820
- Adds support for icons in the new Lens metric #154210
- Adds the ability to share with reports in Lens #153429
- Adds show and hide heatmap ticks in Lens #153425
- Adds the ability to remove empty headers when there is no x-axis in Lens #153420
- Adds improvements to the Metric formatter to support bit format in Lens #153389
- Adds the ability to prevent default behaviour from action callback in Lens #152842
- Adds Random Sampling to Lens #151749
- Machine Learning
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- Data Frame Analytics creation wizard: add ability to add time field to result data view #155669
- Display info when no datafeed preview results are found #155650
- Adding ignore unavailable indices option to anomaly detection job wizards #155527
- Support multiple model deployments #155375
- Uses two weeks before now for default start time in job start date picker #155312
- AIOps: Adds filter action for the Change point detection results #155256
- Adds search links for AIOps Labs pages #155202
- AIOps: Adds field stats for metric and split fields #155177
- AIOps: Link from Explain Log Rate Spikes to Log Pattern Analysis #155121
- Explain Log Rate Spikes: adds popover to analysis table for viewing other field values #154689
- Explain Log Rate Spikes: Makes use of random sampling for overall histogram chart #154520
- Explain Log Rate Spikes: Adds table action to copy filter to clipboard #154311
- Change point detection: support for multiple metric and split fields #154237
- Enhances support for counter fields in data visualizer / field statistics #153893
- Custom sorting by message level on Notifications page #153462
- Adds log pattern analysis in Discover #153449
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Explain Log Rate Spikes: Improves grouping using the
includeoption of thefrequent_item_setsagg #153091 - Data Frame Analytics exploration: adds actions column with link to discover #151482
- Allows row expansion for blocked anomaly detection jobs #151351
- Enhances job and datafeed config editors in the Advanced anomaly detection job wizard to provide suggestions and documentation #146968
- Management
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- Adds timezone support for Transforms date histogram pivot configuration #155535
- Adds more system indices to store internal data when you upgrade to 8.8.0 #154888
- Adds improvements for supporting counter fields in Transforms #154171
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Adds
_schedule_nowaction to transform list #153545 - Adds link to Discover from Index Management so users can directly look at documents of their indices #152640
- Adds health information for alerting rule in Transformshttps://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/152561[#152561]
- Adds improvements for index pattern input in the data view flyout #152138
- Adds a new description for the metadata field in ingest pipelines #150935
- Adds a _meta field to the Ingest pipelines form #149976
- Adds option to Reauthorize transform on Management page #154736
- Maps
- Adds metrics mask #154983
- Observability
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- Adds invalid license page #154866
- Adds empty state page links #154678
- Adds upload symbols instructions to add data page #154670
- Adds new CPU incl and CPU excl names #154560
- Adds symbols callout on frame information window #154478
- Adds Co2 and dollar cost columns and show more information action to functions table #154097
- Adds improvements to functions #153873
- Adds improvements to Flamegraph #153598
- Adds the ability to open the Traces view when you click on a series in stacked charts #153325
- Adds CPU usage column to replace CPU count column #151696
- Querying & Filtering
Bug fixes
edit- Alerting
- APM
- Canvas
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Fixes
createElementcallback #154398 - Cases
- Fixes the Lens visualization in the comment and description markdown on the New Case page #155897
- Dashboard
- Discover
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- Adds a "Temporary" badge for temporary data views in the Alerts flyout #155717
- Adds the ability to exclude counter fields from Breakdown options #155532
- Adds the ability to skip requests for the time series metric counter field #154319
- Fixes KQL autocomplete suggestions, which now support IP-type fields when the `autocomplete:valueSuggestionMethod advanced setting is set to terms_enum #154111
- Fixes an issue where saved search "Manage searches" button was unable to apply the "search" type filter #152565
- Elastic Security
- For the Elastic Security 8.8.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
- Enterprise Search
- For the Elastic Enterprise Search 8.8.0 release information, refer to Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation Release notes.
- Fleet
- Infrastructure
- Adds a 404 page for metrics and logs #153005
- Integrations
- Fixes the slow process event for queries + xterm.js #155326
- Kibana Home & Add Data
- Fixes the guided onboarding API prefix to indicate that it’s intended for internal use #155643
- Lens & Visualizations
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- Adds a default label on field changes for counter rate in Lens #155509
- Panel titles and descriptions are now transferred to the converted Lens panels in TSVB #154713
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Adds the ability to use the empty label for
/terms in TSVB #154647 - Fixes the formatting for the legend actions title #153747
- Adds support for negative filter ratios in TSVB #152053
- Adds the ability to always retain source order for multi-metric partition chart layers in Lens #151949
- Machine Learning
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- Data Frame Analytics/Anomaly Detection: Custom URLs - entity dropdown reflects Data View update #155096
- AIOps: Fix race condition where stale url state would reset search bar #154885
- Fixes anomalies table drilldown time range for longer bucket spans #153678
- Do not match time series counter fields with aggs in wizards #153021
- Anomaly Detection datafeed chart: ensure chart y axis minimum set correctly #152051
- Management
- Maps
- Monitoring
- Removes usage for the stats endpoint #151082
- Observability
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- Adds space-specific feature privileges #154734
- Adds the ability to properly handle NO DATA with multiple conditions with a mix of aggregations and document count thresholds #154690
- Adds additional types to the fields to be use with cardinality aggregation for Metric Threshold Rule #154197
- Adds persistent normalization mode #153116
- Fixes refresh every in the alert search bar #152246
- Platform
- Fixes badge counter for global settings #150869
- Querying & Filtering
- Reporting
- Uptime