Kibana: Is there a way to disable news feed

[liza-mae]

Kibana version: master

Elasticsearch version: master

Server OS version: Linux

Browser version: Chrome

Browser OS version: Latest

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.):
snapshots

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
So I was running a snapshot build and due to a bunch of console errors (#51629) with news feed that I wanted to prevent from showing up as I was debugging something, I looked for a way to disable the news feed, but did not find anything. Is there a way to do that and if not, should there be?

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-stack-services (Team:Stack Services)

[alexfrancoeur]

It's part of the kibana.yml settingsnewsfeed.enabled. Full details can be found here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.5/settings.html

[0xtf]

Does not work in Elastic Cloud. Error:

newsfeed.enabled: is not allowed

Is this expected?

[liza-mae]

Hi @0xtf !

I think on cloud we can't change the newsfeed setting, so I do believe it is expected, but let me cc: @myasonik to confirm.

[0xtf]

Thanks @liza-mae! I added more context on why I believe this feature should be enabled for cloud (or Kibana in general for that matter) on a different issue after a conversation on Slack: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/66784