[One Discover] View logs in Context

[achyutjhunjhunwala]

📓 Summary

In the log stream page, there used to be an action for each row to view relevant logs in context. This context could include surrounding logs from the same file, host or cloud container and it used container.id, log.file.path and host.name fields.

Action menu and "View in Context" modal

Given the log stream page is now deprecated, we have lost this feature as well.

But discover already offers in the DocViewer Flyout, an option to view Surrounding Documents.

We should leverage that logic and re-create view logs in context, a link which would appear right next to Surrounding docs and when clicked, will navigate the user to surrounding docs page, but with different context. It would carry over all the resource level filters of the document and activate them by default.

✔️ Acceptance Criteria

• Add a link right next to Surrounding Docs called View logs in Context
• On click, it should open a new Tab (for now) and navigate the user to the Surrounding Docs page
• It must carry over all the resource fields and activate them as filters for the last 15 mins

Design

Filters should stay enabled instead of disabled like in Surrounding docs

New action

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/obs-ux-logs-team (Team:obs-ux-logs)

[achyutjhunjhunwala]

As discussed further with the Platform team, we will wait on this feature until the Tabs feature is ready in Discover. Idea would be to utilise opening a new tab when user clicks on View logs in context

One additional suggestion from the team was to have this link in 2 places -

1. In the Flyout next to Surrounding docs
2. On cell hover actions something like the View matching results in ES|QL mode

[gbamparop]

This feature is similar to the surrounding docs in Discover so it would be nice to follow a similar UX for now. Based on our previous conversations with @davismcphee, I would suggest to implement it in a similar way, and then if needed, move both to the new tabs implementation.

[davismcphee]

I agree with @gbamparop, this is doable currently with a link to surrounding docs and I don't think it's worth waiting for surrounding docs support in tabs if a simpler version will provide value today. Tabs support will be a better experience but it's a larger effort not currently on the roadmap, and tabs alone won't give us this for free anyway. We can migrate both to tabs at the same time later when it's prioritized.