Navigation Panel

[dhawani]

I found marvel navigation panel to be useful. Basically for giving links to multiple dashboards if they are stored in file system instead of ES.

Can you please bring this navigation panel from marvel to kibana?

Some suggestions, if you do agree

1. i found "Marvel Dashboards" hardcoded in module.html If we can put this in config & json as done for links.
2. if url configuration can move to config.js, we would not need to include it in all dashboard files.

[rashidkpc]

This is not something we plan to bring from marvel to kibana. Marvel is a seperate project. In addition, we have removed file system stored dashboards from Kibana 4 as we provide a stored object editor in the settings screen.

[GrahamHannington]

Okay, forget about what Marvel has. Let's just focus on Kibana. I'd like to easily switch between related Kibana dashboards.

Currently, I'm using a Markdown visualization with links to each related dashboard, similar to the Navigation visualization on the PackBeat demo. But that's a kludge. It means adding that visualization to each related dashboard that I want to switch between. And creating such a visualization for each set of related dashboards.

I'd rather have Kibana provide a mechanism to do this, with a sleeker user experience and a less tedious method of implementation. For example, some way in the Kibana UI to annotate dashboard definitions with tags, and some way in the URL (path or query string) to specify a list of tags (or, in the absence of tags, a list of dashboard IDs) of the dashboards that you want to switch between. Or, instead of tags, a new type of object to relate (group) dashboards: a container for dashboards, in similar (although not identical) fashion to the way that dashboards are containers for visualizations.

With a dropdown arrow next to the current dashboard title enabling you to switch between dashboards. That would be marvellous 😉.

However you implement it, I'd prefer some better method than handcoded links in a Markdown visualization.

[GrahamHannington]

Thank you for the new Links panel (technical preview, new in 8.11, November 2023). I look forward to trying it.

Anyone interested in this issue might also be interested in #175265.