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Enhancements and bug fixes

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Enhancements and bug fixes

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For detailed information about the 8.4.0 release, review the enhancements and bug fixes.

Enhancements

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Alerting

Adds snooze state UI to Rule Details page #135146
Adds Snooze Scheduling UI and API #134512
Adds recovery context for ES query rule type #132839
Visualize alerting metrics in Stack Monitoring #123726

Canvas

Markdown element auto-applies text changes #133318
Lines operations keybindings #132914
Detailed tooltip #131116

Cases

Improved the cases search bar functionality. The search functionality will only consider the title and description fields #136776
Performance improvements were made to reduce the time required to create, update, and delete cases and comments. In our testing we saw around a half second reduction in the round trip time for the UI requests #136452

Dashboard

Hide controls callout when the hideAnnouncements setting is true #136410

Design

Adds an H1 tag with the workpad title when viewing workpads #135504
Improve keyboard navigation in Discover top nav menu #134788

Discover

Improves the HTML formatting of fields with a list of values #136684
Adds support for accessing the edit field flyout from the document explorer column popover #135277
Adds support for copying the query from the add rule flyout #135098
Adds focus to h1 on navigate for single document and surrounding document views #134942
Improves the creation and editing of "Elasticsearch query" rule in Management #134763
Adds data view changed warning after alert rule created #134674
Make Test query button pretty #134605
Improves the document explorer timestamp tooltip accessibility #134411
Adds focus to h1 element when client side routing is executed #133846
Adds an option to copy column values to Clipboard in Document Explorer #132330

Elastic Security

For the Elastic Security 8.4.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.

Fleet

Remove Kubernetes Package granularity #136622
Elastic-agent manifests: align with elastic-agent repo; add comments #136394
Configure source URI in global settings and in agent policy settings #136263
Adds Kubernetes in platforms selection list && update managed agent installation steps #136109
That PR will enable user to write custom ingest pipeline for Fleet installed datastream #134578
Update manifests for agent on kubernetes with new permissions #133495
Adds support for a textarea type in integrations #133070

Kibana Home & Add Data

Adds AnalyticsNoDataPage #134172

Lens & Visualizations

Adds supports for include and exclude terms in Lens #136179
Adds the ability to set top values limit to 10,000 in Lens #136399
Addss value count to Lens #136385
Adds standard deviation function in Lens #136323
Adds the ability to set the font size for mosaic outer level in Lens #135911
Adds the ability to rank top values by custom metric in Lens #134811
Adds the ability to convert TSVB series agg to Lens configuration #134681
Adds the ability to allow multiple split accessors #134566
Adds the ability to render newlines in data table in Lens #134441
Extends Axis bounds for XY chart when using Interval operation in Lens #134020
Adds the ability to use pick_max instead of clamp for positive only #133460
Adds a new pick_min/max operation and clamp fixes in Lens #132449
Adds support for percentile_ranks aggregation in Lens #132430
Implements the ability to drag and drop between layers in Lens #132018
Adds optimization for percentiles fetching in Lens #131875

Machine Learning

Adds tooltips for disabled actions in the Trained Models list #137176
Data visualizer: Add field types in-product help #137121
Plot zero scores on the Overall anomaly swim lane #136951
One-way cursor sync added from Anomaly detection swimlane to other charts #136775
Adds action to view datafeed counts chart to jobs list rows #136274
Data Visualizer: Remove duplicated geo examples, support version type, add filters for boolean fields, and add sticky header to Discover #136236
Adds a link to ML trained models list from ID in Stack Management app table #135700
Adds information callouts to trained model testing flyout #135566
Limit Use full data button in anomaly detection job wizards to past data only #135449
Replace a fixed Y-axis width with a max width setting for Anomaly Swim Lane Embeddable #135436
Adds support for setting threading params when starting a trained model deployment #135134
Refactors Management page to focus on space management tasks #134893
Disable the Single Metric Viewer button for not viewable jobs #134048
Anomaly Detection: allow snapshot to be reverted from the view datafeed flyout #133842

Management

Transforms: Adds per-transform setting for num_failure_retries to creation wizard and edit flyout and authorization info #135486
Transforms: Adds sorting to audit messages tab #135047
Console now supports saving the state of folding/unfolding of commands #134810
Render most severe response status code from Console response pane #134627
You can now create variables in Console #134215
Make index template previews copyable #134060
Console now supports adding comments in the body of a request by using // for a single line and /*....*/ for multiline comments #133852
Surface HTTP status badges next to each response in Console #132494
Adds updated essql expression function #132332
Adds a "get all" REST API for data views: GET /api/data_views #131683

Maps

Automatically display the maps legend #136872
Custom raster source example plugin #136761
Label zoom range style property #136690
Adjust icon size when cluster resolution changes #136573
Adds context for No longer contained geo-containment alert #136451
Keydown+scroll to zoom #135330
Synchronize map views in dashboard and canvas #134272
Adds spatial filter from cluster #133673
Customizable colors in basemaps #131576

Observability

Prefer DataView client over SavedObjects client when possible #136694
Use proper header nesting #136559
Removes "no data" redirects for observability overview #136442
Allow connectors to explicitly register which features they will be available in #136331
Display node details metrics for kubernetes containers #135585
Replace sourceId with mandatory logView prop in LogStream component #134850
Backend operation distribution chart #134561
Display top spans for operation #134179
Show descriptive loading, empty and error states in the metrics table #133947
Backend operations detail view + metric charts #133866
Backend operations list view #133653

Platform

Upgrade Kibana logs to ECS 8.4 #136362
Adds error messaging to the report contents when there is a timeout in page setup #134868
Adds migrations.discardCorruptObjects flag #132984
Adds migrations.discardUnknownObjects flag #132167

Querying & Filtering

Hides the tour component when the hideAnnouncements uiSetting is on #135990

Security

Eliminates the need for a full page reload when navigating to a user profile page #135543

Bug fixes

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Alerting

Error message hidden after closing action accordion #136570
Allow wildcard search on rule’s name and tags #136312

Canvas

Fixes Filter not saving the selected Sort field option #136085
Fixes "Element status" is inaccurate for grouped elements #135829
Fixes Canvas filter behaviour on table #134801
Fixes Uploaded asset not being saved #133166
Lines operations keybindings #132914
Fixes pointseries don’t get updated on datasource change #132831

Connectors

Fixing ES index connector so that it can index into data streams as well as indices #136011
Verify emails when creating an email connector, even if allowedDomain #133859

Dashboard

Fixes Copy to dashboard includes filters #136275

Discover

Fixes hiding histogram for rollup data views #137157
Fixes filtering out custom meta fields of Elasticsearch plugins enhanced documents #137147
Disables refresh interval for data views without time fields and rollups #137134
Fixes Discover breadcrumb losing context after page refresh or when opening in a new tab #136749
Improves support for pinned filters in surrounding documents #135722
Fixes flaky accessibility functional tests #135596
Improves alerts popover accessibility and semantics #135270
Migrate from savedObjectsClient to dataViews and fix the displayed data view name #135142
Removes _type of metaFields to remove of sidebar #134453
Fixes legacy sort parameter provided by URL #134447
Make footer visible under Document Explorer if sample size is less than hits number #134231
Do not update defaultIndex in case of insufficient permissions #134202
Fixes flaky test for "allows editing of a newly created field" #132812
Fixes flaky test for "context encoded URL params" #132808

Elastic Security

For the Elastic Security 8.4.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.

Fleet

Using point in time for agent status query to avoid discrepancy #135816

Lens & Visualizations

Make reference line chart more robust in Lens #137101
Format the label with the right default formatter in TSVB #136934
Removes extra space from the legend when it is positioned on top/bottom #135982
Display Y-axis tick labels #135976
Fixes Date histogram bounds calculation doesn’t update "now" #135899
Fixes internal links in Vega #135890
Do not set non-unique id for legend action popovers in Lens #135656
Fixes non-editable Lens panel when using prefix wildcard in Lens #135654
Removes saved search references from all places on unlink in Visualize #135628
Fix multi-field top values for Heatmap visualizations in Lens #135581
Fixes styling issues in Lens #135406
Show badge for read-only in Lens #135313
Don’t let reference line fills on different axes collide in Lens #135299
Fixes css specificity issue in TSVB #135245
Always show palette on first dimension for mosaic in Lens #135198
Wrong visType for horizontal_bar visualization #135013
Unlinking Some Agg Based Visualizations Results in Unsaved Changes in Visualize #134229
Fixes an issue where ellipsis truncation is not visible in table visualization cells, and letters are cut off in Lens #134065
Switching dashboard mode doesn’t update missing data view prompt in Visualize #133873
Fixes application of suffix formats in Lens #133780
Error messages not centered in TSVB #133288
Use correct time zone for time shifting #133141

Machine Learning

Lock the delete annotation button on click #137306
Fixes globally pinned filters in Data visualizer and query search bar not clearing properly for saved searches #136897
Fixes overflow in start datafeed modal #136292
Fixes error in categorization wizard summary step #134228
Fixes flaky job selection on the Anomaly Explorer page #137596
Fixes query in the Anomaly Explorer when viewing a job with no influencers #137670
Fixes the Dashboard saving indicator with Anomaly Swim Lane embeddable #137989
Anomaly detection job wizards now use data view names #138255

Management

The ILM UI now supports configuring policies with rollover based on max_primary_shard_docs #137364
Fixes a bug in Console when sending a request with encoded characters resulted in an error #136788
Fixes a bug where the autocomplete popup remains open when navigating away from Console #136268
Fixes a bug in Index Management where the number of documents for an index could appear wrong #135748
Fixes a bug in the Painless code editor that was incorrectly handling expressions with multiple division operators #135423
Transforms: Fixes unsupported boolean filter when cloning #137773
Transforms: Fixes restoring a field name with the exists filter aggregation #138630
Transforms: Fixes data view error on cloning due to missing indices #138756
Fixes Watcher stuck firing state #138563

Maps

Fixes "other" is always shown in legend for category styling rules #137008
Fixes Tooltip loses pages on refresh #135593
Fixes Pinned filters should be visible on new maps without user having to do any action on layers #135465
Keep timeframe when editing a map from a dashboard #135374
Reduce precision of coordinates for geo imports #135133
Fixes onDataLoadEnd and onDataLoadError event handler callbacks only called for source data requests #134786
Fixes sort not applied to vector tile search request #134607
Fixes array values out of order in tooltips #134588

Monitoring

Removes beta icon from logstash pipeline #131752

Observability

Invalid array value is permitted in Origin Headers for RUM configuration #137228
When comparison feature is disabled, we still see the shaded area #137223
Fixes responsivity Alert Summary chart in the Rule details page #137175
Fixes custom link filter select value #137025
Fixes Spark plots loading state when there are no data #136817
Adds support for metrics for latency distribution histogram #136594
Navigation from Span to Service breaks due to wrong transactionType #136569
Breadcrumbs not updating from service jump on service map #136144
Adds support for metrics for latency distribution histogram #136083
Disallow spaces in index pattern #135977
WrappedElasticsearchClientError: Request aborted #135752
Fixes waterfall skew due to accordion left margins #135544
Service inventory: detailed stats fetched for all services #134844
Update network fields #134471
Fixes Metrics Table Pod link to Details Page #134354
Adds last updated at label and fix started at label #134254
Adds event module filter to metrics table #133872
APM Correlations: Fixes chart errors caused by inconsistent histogram range steps #138259

Platform

Migrations wait for index status green if create index returns acknowledged=false or shardsAcknowledged=false #136605
Fixes CSV generator to include unmapped fields in the search source #132972

Security

Fixes keyboard and screen reader navigation for the spaces selector #134454

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