Too much Kibana App Reloads

[fbaligand]

Kibana App Loading in browser is quite long. It can take from 1s to more than 10s, depending machine/browser.
This could be OK if Kibana App Loading happens only one time.
But it happens too often, and so, it is very frustrating as user experience.

Here's a scenario example :

• I launch Kibana URL => Kibana App Loading
• I get login screen, so I log in and submit => Kibana App Loading
• I get the Kibana Spaces choice screen. I choose one => Kibana App Loading
• I arrive on Kibana home. I click on Monitoring tab => Kibana App Loading
• I click on Elastic APM tab => Kibana App Loading
• I click on Logs tab => Kibana App Loading
• I click on Machine Learning tab => Kibana App Loading
• I click on Canvas tab => Kibana App Loading, and then Canvas loading
• I click on Timelion tab => Kibana App Loading
• I click on Dashboard tab => Kibana App Loading

As you guess, that makes a lot of Kibana App Loading, and so, is very frustrating and not efficient.

So it would be great to either reduce significantly Kibana App Loading time, either reduce significantly Kibana App Loading count.

As a comparison, Grafana has a App Loading very very fast, and App Loading is done only one time.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-platform

[spalger]

We totally agree @fbaligand, and we're working on it. The new platform comes with an application service that will change the way that applications mount and provide facilities for applications to unmount, allowing us to navigate between applications without doing a full page reload. That said, we're already tracking the issue in the following issues so I'm going to close this one as a duplicate:

• Remove loading screen on navigation between applications #10798
• New Kibana platform #9675
• [browser] Application service #18843

[fbaligand]

Thanks for the answer @spalger and happy to see that you work on it!