[Lens] Misleading percentages shown in field stats when the field is only on some docs #81677
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enhancement
New value added to drive a business result
Feature:Lens
Team:Visualizations
Visualization editors, elastic-charts and infrastructure
The main reason it's misleading is the footer which says for each field that the field is in "99% of 5,076 documents", which has ambiguous meaning. Will a user interpret this setting as:
This is very closely related to not using the sampler aggregation.
Potential solutions
My preferred solution is to use this display to indicate that the field is available on X% of documents, without sampling.
An alternative option is to indicate the sampling separately from the "existing" percent, effectively introducing a "Missing" value to each field.
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