Schedule collection of diagnostics bundles/longer time-outs before giving up generating diagnostic bundles.

[WiegerElastic]

Describe the feature:
I would like to have the capability to request a diagnostics bundle that gets generated as soon as the endpoint comes online. Right now, there's a very strict timeout on generating the bundles, so you have to be actively monitoring whether or not an endpoint is online to get the bundle.

Describe a specific use case for the feature:
Getting diagnostic bundles when someone might not be working in your timezone, but does have an issue. E.g. I can request the bundle at 03.00 PM my time. The endpoint comes online 01.00 AM my time and the bundle gets collected. I can then easily review the bundle at 09.00 AM my time (or whenever I get around to it).

@juliaElastic

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/fleet (Team:Fleet)

[nimarezainia]

I changed the title to be a bit more specific. The outcome we want is to put a watch on the agent to perform an action when it's back online. I think there may be other applications of this type of watcher.

[ycombinator]

Just to clarify, this issue feels like two separate enhancements with different scopes and probably priorities as well:

• Users should be able to configure a longer timeout for generating diagnostic bundles, and
• Users should be able to schedule a diagnostic bundle generation request.

I believe what @WiegerElastic wants is more of the first one? Please confirm if that's sufficient, and we'll re-title this issue accordingly. And if there's a use case for the second one, we'll file a separate issue for it.

[nimarezainia]

Regarding the second option: Just to clarify, the user knows there's an issue on agent X. Agent X however is currently offline. the user issues the action to collect diagnostics bundle. Sending actions to an offline agent. So I do agree that this should be a separate issue.