Kibana display of base64 encoded images directly from elastic index

[JeffBolle]

Describe the feature:

I have small images stored within my Elastic index (I fully understand that this is not best practice, but the images are small and programmatically generated) that are base64 encoded text. Kibana allows for the display of images already, if they are stored as URLs, and it allows for the decoding of base64 text. However, there is no way to have Kibana display an image that is contained within base64 encoded text in a field within an Elastic index. Please consider this additional use case for the existing functionality already in Kibana's field formatters.

Reference the support thread here:
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-base64-encoded-images/59438

[Bargs]

Yep, this would be pretty cool!

[JSlote]

I'm happy to make a contribution to enable this. Could someone point me in the right direction to get started? Maybe @epixa or @Bargs ? Thanks!

[epixa]

I think this would be best handled by a new field formatter.

@elastic/kibana-management

[nhogan5]

Any updates here?

[Kwadz]

Isn't this suggestion relevant to do the thing?

[timroes]

This is doable nowadays via the image field formatter. You can just configure a URL > Image field formatter using inline images like this: