Kibana 8.17.0
editKibana 8.17.0
editComing in 8.17.0.
For information about the Kibana 8.17.0 release, review the following information.
The 8.17.0 release includes the following known issues.
Known issues
editErrors appear when loading Observability Infrastructure inventory views after upgrading to version 8.10.0 or higher.
Details
After upgrading to version 8.10.0 or higher, you may encounter errors when loading inventory views.
For more information, refer to #187254.
Workaround
You can mitigate the issue by completing the following steps:
-
Search the
.kibana_*
index fortype: inventory_view
. -
Copy the
_id
field, which will be formatted asinventory-view:<id>
. For example,inventory-view:3d3d06b0-f873-4373-8446-f6a8341cd8b1
. Omit theinventory-view:
portion and copy only the string of_id
characters. -
The offending documents are those with fields
inventory-view.legend.steps
> 18. Delete these documents by running the following in Console:
DELETE kbn:/api/infra/inventory-views/<id>
Upgrade Assistant displays configured source mode in mappings as critical deprecation issue.
Details
When upgrading to a newer version, the Upgrade Assistant displays critical warnings for the deprecation of configuring source mode in mappings. These warnings can safely be ignored.
For more information, refer to #206400.
Deprecations
editThe following functionality is deprecated in 8.17.0, and will be removed in 9.0.0. Deprecated functionality does not have an immediate impact on your application, but we strongly recommend you make the necessary updates after you upgrade to 8.17.0.
The Observability > Logs > Explorer app is now deprecated in favor of Discover.
Details
Both the Logs Explorer and Logs Stream applications are now deprecated and will be removed in 9.0. We continue to make enhancements to Discover to offer similar functionality in 9.x.
Features
editKibana 8.17.0 adds the following new and notable features.
- Cases
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- Files can now be attached to cases directly via API (#198377).
- Data ingestion and Fleet
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- Exposes advanced file logging configuration in the UI (#200274).
- Dashboards and visualizations
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- AIOps: Adds Log Rate Analysis embeddable for dashboards (#197943).
- Discover and ES|QL
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- Keeps the preferred chart configuration when possible when writing ES|QL queries in Discover (#197453).
- ES|QL
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- Adds the ability to star queries in the ES|QL editor (#198362).
- Elastic Observability solution
- Elastic Security solution
- For the Elastic Security 8.17.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
- Kibana security
For more information about the features introduced in 8.17.0, refer to What’s new in 8.17.