[Meta][Lens] Lens by Default

[timductive]

Capabilities needed for Lens as Default

• Prerequisites
  • First we need to achieve Lens GA ([Meta] [Lens] Making Lens GA #61453)
• Metrics
  • Technical changes to allow calculations ([Lens] Change the internal API of operations to support calculations #76828)
  • Expression function to scale metrics by time interval ([Lens] Expression function to scale numbers to a specific time interval #77692)
  • Option to scale by time [Lens] Options to scale metrics into a "rate per second" or "rate per minute" #77811
  • Positive rate ([lens] Add "counter rate" for monotonically increasing numbers #46627)
  • Cumulative sum ([Lens] Add cumulative sum aggregation #61776)
  • Derivatives ([Lens] Add derivative function #61775)
  • Moving average ([Lens] Add moving average aggregation #61777)
  • Median ([Lens] Support median as metric aggregation #74889)
  • First or last match ([Lens] Provide single-value functions to show the "First" or "Last" value of some field #55895)
• Table:
  • Sort data by a specific column on the client [Lens] Client side table sorting #76962
  • Order in the configurator should represent the order in the table ([Lens] Bugs in table rendering caused by toExpression function #74900)
• Styling
  • Labels on chart ([Lens] values on chart #69100)
  • Color series ([Lens] Set colors for y-axis series  #53660)
  • Color break down by ([Lens] break down by - allow users to select their color palette  #53661)
  • Second Y-axis ([Lens] Support two y-axis for visualizing data in different scale  #53663)
• Charts
  • Pie, treemap ([lens] Implement pie chart visualization #38837)
• Bucket aggregations
  • Filter aggregation ([Lens] Support filters aggregation #61330)
  • Number histogram/range aggregation ([Lens] Create combined histogram/range aggregation for numbers #59424)
• Kibana parity:
  • Interactivity - brush and click ([Lens] Allow user to drag and select a subset of the timeline in the chart (aka brush interaction) #58513, [Lens] Trigger a filter action on click in datatable visualization #61417)
  • Reporting as part of a dashboard - done 7.5
  • CSV export [Lens] CSV export #74509
• Experience :
  • Ability to switch fields - drag and drop between configurator fields. Move from x-axis to breakdown (overwrite) [Lens] Drag from one dimension group to another to swap or suggest #51739
  • Drop between two columns/ reorder column - to set the right column order of the table ([Lens] Drag within dimension group to reorder #67226)
  • A11y [Lens] Make Lens UI WCAG A compliant #75543

While adding these capabilities, we can incrementally make Lens the prominent choice when visualizing data: #75130

Stretch goals (we would like to have these in, but won't start working on them before all of the items on the list above are done, then decide which one we want to tackle before the switch):

• Percentiles ([Lens] Single-value percentile metric #74574) or maybe single value percentiles ([Lens] Single-value percentile metric #74574)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app (Team:KibanaApp)

[tbragin]

@sorantis when you get a chance, could you double-check this list for making Lens on by default against the needs of observability solution?

For instance, I'm aware of one previous dependency "Support for Histogram data type with sum, average" (#74581) that isn't currently on the list as far as I can tell. I know we are tracking gaps here, but not sure how well coordinated this is with Kibana Team: elastic/integrations#265

cc @timductive @VijayDoshi

[timductive]

Thanks @tbragin we have the integrations issue that you linked on our radar but we are probably due soon for a check in for any other dependencies or requirements.

[wylieconlon]

Looks like we can close this issue.

[flash1293]

All features are implemented, closing this issue. There are still things to do to "roll out" Lens across Kibana, see #75130