Document side effects for numbers outside safe JavaScript range

[fdartayre]

Document the effects in Kibana of missing support of 64 bit integer values in JavaScript (#40183).

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-core (Team:Core)

[pgayvallet]

I'm not sure who should / could be in charge of documenting this, but I know the Core team wouldn't be able to. We can't know what the behavior is in each individual app and each feature of Kibana. I will unassign my team for re-triaging.

[wayneseymour]

I'm not sure who should / could be in charge of documenting this, but I know the Core team wouldn't be able to. We can't know what the behavior is in each individual app and each feature of Kibana. I will unassign my team for re-triaging.

ok, thanks Pierre.

[wayneseymour]

@pgayvallet The screenshot shows how I deduced to tag your team, but I'll try to remember next time.
Should saved objects not be listed here?

[pgayvallet]

SavedObjects are definitely under our team's scope.

Not sure to see the link between SOs and documenting edge cases and side effect of 64bit integer overflow in Kibana though?

[wayneseymour]

Good argument lol

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-docs (Team:Docs)

[jrodewig]

Hi @wayneseymour @fdartayre

Can either of you provide:

• An indication of urgency/importance
• An indication of whether the Effect in Kibana section of (64 bit number/integer support in Kibana #40183) is still accurate

The Platform docs team has very limited resources so it's important that we focus on high priority work first.

I also wonder whether this is an opportunity to improve the in-app experience instead of or in addition to updating docs. Many users who encounter the rounding error may not have seen the related docs — even if we make them highly visible. Some type of in-app warning or notification may provide a better experience.

[jrodewig]

From a docs perspective, it may make more sense to note this in the Elasticsearch docs for the potentially affected field types (long, date_nanos, unsigned_long):

• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/number.html
• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/date.html