Kibana: [Docs] Breaking change: Console no longer allows configuring elasticsearch host url on the UI

Created on 1 Nov 2016 · 12Comments · Source: elastic/kibana

When we migrated from Sense plugin to Console packaged with Kibana in 5.0, the ability to reference a different elasticsearch url for issuing queries from the editor was removed and it is now dependent on the value of elasticsearch.url in the kibana yml.

This is a breaking change and will be nice to document accordingly.

Console Dev Tools Docs Elasticsearch UI

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ppf2

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I loved that I could use the sense plugin to hit different servers. Now, that is gone. The Chrome extension for sense has also been removed. Any chance is this feature will ever be added back? Or any workarounds. I don't imagine restarting Kibana each time with a different configuration.

jatinst on 14 Nov 2017

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ppf2 on 1 Nov 2016

cc @epixa

tbragin on 14 Nov 2016

also is the screenshot wrong within documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/console-kibana.html, there is no server url field

dominikzogg on 9 Feb 2017

@tylersmalley mentioned in #10751 :

I am leaning towards leaving this out of the breaking changes doc as it was a plugin prior to 5.x and not in Kibana core.

ppisljar on 11 Mar 2017

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jatinst on 14 Nov 2017

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Having this ability is really useful. Please consider to add this back on the console UI

thisisananth on 14 Feb 2018

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migrating from one ES version to another is now a bit pain. before i simply used sense as chrome plugin, now i've to setup to different kibana servers to use sense for both.

timglabisch on 25 Jun 2018

@tylersmalley Can we close this issue?

gchaps on 22 Apr 2019

@gchaps, this issue is actually still valid. Prior to bringing Console (known as Sense at the time) into Kibana, it allowed for the user to connect to additional ES clusters. This was removed during that migration as it was essentially an open proxy within Kibana.

tylersmalley on 25 Apr 2019

Pinging @elastic/kibana-docs

elasticmachine on 25 Apr 2019

Pinging @elastic/es-ui

elasticmachine on 14 Jun 2019

I'm going to close this because 5.x is EOL at this point, so updating the docs seems moot. I think that allowing Console to send requests to arbitrary ES clusters is interesting, so I opened https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/48406 so we can discuss this feature.