Provide a way to view neighbouring log entries

[cdalexndr]

Describe the feature:
Provide a way to focus an entry and keep it in the view after changing the query to a broader one.

For example:
When the user clicks an entry, the date is set to selected entry's date. Changing the query will keep the selected entry in view due to selected date.

Currently, the date is selected from the middle entry. When the display contains entry that have large gaps between them and you want to select the last entry's date, you have to manually enter the date after changing the query, then search for the entry in the view (could be lots of entries close to the searched one, so this is time consuming scrolling to search the one).

Describe a specific use case for the feature:
While filtering for errors. you want to know the surrounding context that leads to that error, so you change the query to include additional entries (info level log entries).

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/logs-metrics-ui (Team:logs-metrics-ui)

[weltenwort]

Thank you for the detailed use-case description.

It sounds similar to the workflow that #40808 and #38261 try to improve. Please feel free to participate in those discussions.

[sgrodzicki]

Closing this one in favor of #40808, where we already have some designs.