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@florent-leborgne florent-leborgne commented Oct 13, 2025

This PR:

  • Repurposes the Search sessions page into Background search. The feature being essentially the same on the UX side (a few changes still), and using the same settings behind the scenes, we chose to update the existing page rather than create a new one.
  • Calls out that search sessions, which is a deprecated feature since 8.15 and disabled by default, are being replaced with this new background search feature, so that search sessions users know what's happening.
  • Adds references to background search to a few places to increase its visibility.
    • Discover overview docs on searching & filtering
    • Glossary
    • Dashboards docs as a tip for slow loading scenarios
  • Removes the old search sessions example in favor of more generic but goal-oriented small sections

The update to the Search session settings page are in elastic/kibana#238699 as these source files are in another repo

Closes: #3105

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@florent-leborgne florent-leborgne marked this pull request as ready for review October 13, 2025 15:55
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A couple of minor pieces of feedback, otherwise LGTM

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LGTM, thx, nothing to add to the comments @lukasolson added 👍

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Left a few editing suggestions.

florent-leborgne and others added 4 commits October 15, 2025 14:22
Co-authored-by: Arianna Laudazzi <46651782+alaudazzi@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Arianna Laudazzi <46651782+alaudazzi@users.noreply.github.com>
@florent-leborgne florent-leborgne requested review from a team and alaudazzi October 15, 2025 12:27
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@florent-leborgne florent-leborgne merged commit b23faa4 into elastic:main Oct 15, 2025
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florent-leborgne added a commit to elastic/kibana that referenced this pull request Oct 15, 2025
This PR edits the search sessions/background search settings page.

**Must merge the following PR first to re-add a link to a new page
here:**

Relates to: elastic/docs-content#3455
kibanamachine pushed a commit to kibanamachine/kibana that referenced this pull request Oct 15, 2025
This PR edits the search sessions/background search settings page.

**Must merge the following PR first to re-add a link to a new page
here:**

Relates to: elastic/docs-content#3455

(cherry picked from commit 03a57fb)
mgadewoll pushed a commit to tkajtoch/kibana that referenced this pull request Oct 17, 2025
This PR edits the search sessions/background search settings page.

**Must merge the following PR first to re-add a link to a new page
here:**

Relates to: elastic/docs-content#3455
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