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Enhancements and bug fixes
editEnhancements and bug fixes
editFor detailed information about the 8.9.0 release, review the enhancements and bug fixes.
Enhancements
edit- Alerting
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Adds a Mustache lambda for alerting actions to format numbers with
{{#FormatNumber}}
usingIntl.NumberFormat
#159644 - Removes bulk snoozing of rules in Select All mode #159749
- Adds refresh button to maintenance windows list #159618
- Adds the feature for a Slack API to have allowed list on channels #159534
- Integrate Conditional Actions with several Observability rule types #159522
- Adds AAD Fields API #158516
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Adds API to retrieve the
fieldsForAAD
from a given rule type #158516 - Improves the performance of clearing expired snooze schedules #157909
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Adds a Mustache lambda for alerting actions to format numbers with
- APM
- Dashboard
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- Adds design enhancements to the clone experience in Dashboards #159752
- Adds enhancements to the empty state screen in Dashboards #158496
- Adds a query DSL documentation link to filters UI #156543
- Adds a counter displaying the min/max values of the time series counter field in the field popover #155499
- Adds the ability for Controls to recover from non-fatal error state #158087
- Discover
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- Updates Discover sharing capabilities to enable sharing a link when using temporary data views #154947
- Elastic Security
- For the Elastic Security 8.9.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
- Enterprise Search
- For the Elastic Enterprise Search 8.9.0 release information, refer to Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation Release notes.
- Fleet
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- Adds agent integration health reporting in the Fleet UI #158826
- Lens & Visualizations
- Machine Learning
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- Data Frame Analytics: Allow interval time range selection in custom URLs #159874
- Increase limit of anomaly charts to max of 50 #159816
- Enable auto-complete on filter by influencer search box on anomaly explorer page #159739
- Moves import buttons in file data visualizer #159722
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Explain Log Rate Spikes: Adds secondary sort by
doc_count
only if sorted byp-value
#159568 - Adds hyperlink to anomaly explorer for job from anomaly layer in maps #159268
- Support pipelines deletion and force flag for delete action #158671
- Use auto layout for anomalies table columns #157687
- Versioning all ML APIs #156949
- Management
- Maps
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- Adds a new layer wizard for the spatial join option #156618
- Metrics
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- Adds copilot to hosts process #159413
- Observability
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- Adds TLS Certificates page copied from Uptime, which only displays certificates from the synthetics application #159541
- Adds creating, editing, deleting monitors in private locations, which no longer requires all permissions in feet. You will only need synthetics write permissions. #159378
- Adds burn rate windows to SLO detail page #159750
- Adds Normalize by time and scale factor on Diff TopN functions page #159394
- Adds a severity label to SLO burn rate rule reason message #158954
- Adds Copy JSON button to Clipboard for SLO form #157902
- Adds Custom Metric SLI #157421
- Adds Data Views to index pattern selector #158033
- Platform
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The savedObjects export API now supports exporting all types using the
*
wildcard. Please refer to the documentation #159289
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The savedObjects export API now supports exporting all types using the
- Security
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- Hide create spaces button when limit is reached #159102
- Uptime
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- Adds the option to send an HTML email instead of a plaintext email to users when assigned to a case #159335
- Implement standard time formatting #143799
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Adds a new field, called
category
, to categorize cases. Users can create a new category, set or select an existing one on a case, and filter by multiple categories on the cases table. #159890
Bug Fixes
edit- Alerting
- APM
- Cases
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- Fixes a bug in the alerts table where you cannot create a new case when attaching alerts to a case from the cases modal #160526
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Fixes an issue where the following special characters could not be included in the case tags:
\():<>"*
because it resulted in a bug where the case would not be displayed in the cases table when filtered for those tags. These characters are now handled correctly and the cases will be shown in the table. #159815
- Dashboard
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- Fixes an issue where a Dashboard redirect alias displayed a blank screen instead of redirecting properly #161043
- Fixes an issue where the time slider would override custom time ranges #160938
- Fixes an issue where if the Reset button is clicked after changing the Title or Description in Panel settings before clicking Save, the Title or Description would revert to previous values #159430
- Fixes dashboard reset when initial state has no controls #159404
- Design
- Discover
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- Fixes refresh fields when entering Discover #160195
- Elastic Security
- For the Elastic Security 8.9.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
- Enterprise Search
- For the Elastic Enterprise Search 8.9.0 release information, refer to Elastic Enterprise Search Documentation Release notes.
- Fleet
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Fixes bug that prevented
index.mapping
settings to be propagated into component templates from default settings #157289
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Fixes bug that prevented
- Lens & Visualizations
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- Fixes missing datasource migration sometimes failing to run in Lens #160129
- Removes wrong padding on the dashboard in Lens #159992
- Fixes counter fields being used with Top values in Lens #159709
- Fixes dimension labels being partially translated on language change in Lens #159089
- Fixes the threshold visibility rendering in XY charts #158917
- Fixes a tag cloud warning about container being too small that never disappears #159611
- Default format in Lens will apply dataView field format as usual now in new Metric visualization #158468
- Fixes the handling of partition chart empty slices in Lens #158346
- Make reference lines use the correct formatter when configured in Lens #158266
- Fixes an issue where dropping a date field into a XY visualization with multiple mixed layers resets the chart type of all layers in Lens #157871
- Fixes an issue where incompatible actions were visible from the panels #156667
- Machine Learning
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- Fixing time range selector in recognizer wizard #160910
- Fixes Anomaly Explorer URL for alerting context with non-default space #160899
- Hide inference stats for PyTorch models #160599
- Outlier detection results: ensure feature influence color persists on column position change #160470
- Anomaly detection: fixes time format used in query for datafeed chart #160325
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Hide
cache_miss_count
for PyTorch models #160265 - Fixes time range in link to data visualizer after file upload #160189
- Fixes links to dashboards in Lens created anomaly detection jobs #160156
- Adds warning to log pattern analysis page if data view is not time based #160021
- Management
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- Fixes creation and editing of composite runtime fields with dots in the names #160458
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Fixes decreasing network delays when cross cluster search is running by sending
ccs_minimize_roundtrips=true
for async search requests #159848 - Fixes max page search size limit for Transforms #159052
- Fixes issue with single value for fields parameters #157930
- Fixes data view timestamp validation #150398
- Fixes theming for search sessions management #160182
- Maps
- Metrics
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Fixes
metric_explorer
flaky testhttps://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/157194[#157194]
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Fixes
- Operations
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- Fixes Elasticsearch snapshot startup for parameters with dots in their path #161022
- Platform
- Security
- Uptime