[Meta] Unified search experience across kibana

[stratoula]

Describe the feature:
We want to unify the search experience across Elastic with a composable and extensible query bar.

Problem statements (high level)

• Inconsistent: Why doesn’t it work like Discover in Solutions?
• This OR that: It’s hard to setup boolean expressions around my complex filters and understand the relationship between filters and the query bar. Security team solving for this today
• So much interface: the query bar takes up two full rows before the content can start and the top of Kibana looks busy. Solution teams have been working to solve this which has lead to inconsistency
• Not in my language: Rather than using a configuration UI with fields I’d like to query using ES|QL / EQL (a tier 3 security analyst), SQL (an analyst/manager), or eventually PromQL (a SRE)
• Order matters: The information hierarchy is not predictable in pages that have a data view context (like Discover and Lens)

Capabilities:

• Support text-based (non-UI based) languages.
• Different search languages (DSL, SQL, EQL, PromQL)
• Enhanced filtering experience on top of any search
• Expand filter capabilities to including ORs
• Extensible to support advanced queries

This is a big project that will be implemented on various phases

Phase 1: Redesign of the current search experience

In this phase we are not going to offer more features to our users. We are just going to change the UI and improve the current experience.

• [Unified search] Improves the current filter/search experience #128401
• Solutions to integrate new Data View Menu

Tasks:

• Search bar is bigger
• Combine Filter menu, Language switcher and Saved Queries menu into one
• Move Data Views selector to top bar
• Move the add filter capability to right of the search bar

Phase 2: Adapt text-based languages

Phase 3: Users can apply more than one saved search

Phase 4: Add complex filter capabilities (ORs)

• [Unified Search] Comparison & opinionated controls in unified search #135735

Phase 5: Eliminate the filter pills (references)

Adoption

(this list is incomplete, please fill in missing items or remove ones that will not be using Unified Search)

• Discover
• Dashboards
• Maps [Maps] Support new query bar #130014
• ML
• Graph
• Enterprise search
• Security

Observability

• Alerts
• Logs [Logs UI] Use Unified Search Bar: Meta issue #142714
• Hosts
• Inventory
• Metrics explorer
• APM [APM] Replace custom kuery bar with shared SearchBar / TopNavMenu #82751
• User Experience [UX] Add global search bar to allow for KQL querying on the data #99601
• Synthetics
• Uptime

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Open Discussions

• What are we going to do with the pinned filters functionality?

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-vis-editors @elastic/kibana-vis-editors-external (Team:VisEditors)

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Pinging @elastic/kibana-presentation (Team:Presentation)

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Pinging @elastic/kibana-app-services (Team:AppServicesSv)

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Pinging @elastic/kibana-data-discovery (Team:DataDiscovery)

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Pinging @elastic/kibana-app-services (Team:AppServicesUx)

[ThomThomson]

Removing the Presentation team label from this as it doesn't seem like there is any work required from our side at the moment.

[stratoula]

We are not tracking this anymore, I am closing