[Reporting] CSV features from Dashboard: add "Generate CSV" option, deprecate "Download CSV" option #133669
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Product and/or Engineering needs to evaluate the impact of the change.
loe:medium
Medium Level of Effort
Kibana version:
8.4.+
Elasticsearch version:
Server OS version:
Browser version:
Browser OS version:
Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.):
Describe the change:
Users have described performance issues with the "Download CSV" option in Dashboard. The workaround is to navigate to Discover and use the "Generate CSV" option to create a report of a saved search.
Background
The reason for the performance problems are due to using Kibana as a bridge between scan-and-scroll data from Elasticsearch and the end-user's browser. Certain things specific to "Download CSV' create weak links in the chain:
Proposal
There already is a config setting to show/hide the "Download CSV" option:
xpack.reporting.csv.enablePanelActionDownload
. I propose 2 things:xpack.reporting.csv.enablePanelActionDownload
option is deprecated due to performance reasons.This change will make the "workaround" for the performance problem a front-and-center solution in the user experience.
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