Gaps in moving to Lens

[andresrc]

The goal of this issue is to collect the different issues / gaps that we might find when building new dashboards to Lens or migrating existing ones.

Please add comments withe the issues you find, they will be consolidated in the main comment.

• Group by filter
• Percentile aggregation
• load lens assets in Kibana
• Dashboard input controls

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/integrations (Team:Integrations)

[kaiyan-sheng]

It's very convenient to use group by terms in lens but not group by filter like this shown in TSVB:

[ChrsMark]

Lens does not provide support for percentile aggregation:

TSVB is the way to go when one want to visualise histograms:

[AlonaNadler]

@kaiyan-sheng filter aggregation is supported in Lens in 7.10
please let me know if you managed to create what you wanted

[kaiyan-sheng]

Thanks @AlonaNadler I used TSVB for this use case. Do you know if we are planning to add filter aggregation into Lens soon?

[AlonaNadler]

Sorry I had a typo. Filter aggregation is supported in Lens in 7.10

[kaiyan-sheng]

This is not a gap but more of an enhancement request: when we create a lens visualization and plot a field with break down by container.id, is it possible to add a display name field to be container.name instead? For this case, container.id is just a random string that's not human readable but container.name is actually a meaningful keyword. But container.name can be the same for different containers running in different clusters so we have to plot with container.id instead. Similar use case for host.id and host.name as well.

[mtojek]

Currently Kibana doesn't support Lens type in fleet (/cc @ph).

Also, I've just opened a PR to enable it in the package-spec: elastic/package-spec#94

[ph]

We aren't support lens assets installation yet, I've created this on our side elastic/kibana#85428 , I've marked it as 77.12 because I think its low effort to add and is required to use lens in integration.

[skh]

PR open merged for EPM support for Lens assets ( elastic/kibana#85428 ): elastic/kibana#88189

[ph]

Everything is done in the package integration to support LEns FYI @masci