Background search in Discover and Dashboards #3455
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reakaleek
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| You can send your long-running searches to the background from **Discover** or **Dashboards** and let them run while you continue your work. | ||
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| A notification appears when a background search has completed, and allows you to open the list of background searches. You can also access that list at any time to check the status of your searches and interact with them from the {icon}`background_task` **Background searches** button in the toolbar. |
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Technically the notification appears when the background search object has been created, not when the searches are complete.
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| You can resume your other tasks, for example start a new search, navigate to a different application, or close the browser. Once the search has completed, a notification informs you and lets you access the search to view its results. | ||
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| Background searches expire after 7 days. Beyond that period, you must run the search again. |
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Not sure if it's worth mentioning here that it's configurable with the advanced setting data.search.sessions.defaultExpiration.
| From the list of background searches, you can reopen and edit any searches, but also extend their validity period or delete them to keep only searches that you care about. | ||
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| 1. Open your list of background searches using one of the following methods: | ||
| - Once a background search has completed, a notification appears to inform you, with a link to open the list of background searches. |
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Same comment as above - we currently don't have a notification when the search completes.
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This PR:
The update to the Search session settings page are in elastic/kibana#238699 as these source files are in another repo
Closes: #3105