Provide drill-down capability in the dashboard options menu in Kibana

[mbudge]

Hi,

We think it would be easier for operators to navigate drill-down dashboards via the options menu, as well as selecting the path by clicking one of the cells.

This is because operators often select multiple filters, for example user.name and host.name or user.name and process.executable before navigating to another dashboard. Currently they have to select all the filters then find the correct field to find the path to the next dashboard. This process could be streamlined by listing all available dashboard paths in the options menu. This should work with both visual and saved search dashboards.

Thanks

[Dosant]

@mbudge, 7.11 release will have this pr
However this will be only supported for URL drilldown.

@elastic-jb @streamich , I now wonder if it would be valuable to have this for dashboard drilldown also.

[mbudge]

Our users need to be able to use drill-down paths from saved search dashboards.

[GrahamHannington]

I've developed a set of dashboards that present information about "jobs" from different angles, such as CPU usage and memory usage. (What kind of jobs, on what platform? Not especially relevant here. If you prefer, for "jobs", read "tasks" or "processes".) Each of these dashboards is designed to present information about multiple jobs; to compare jobs, and highlight jobs with relatively high values; for example, in charts with titles such as "Top 10 Maximum CPU Usage by Job Name".

In each "... by Job Name" visualization, I've defined a "View job details" drill-down to a "Job Details" dashboard that is designed to present information about a single job from multiple angles.

This raises various questions related to this issue:

• How do users know that they can click a "job name" item (such as a bar in a bar chart) in a dashboard, and that will offer them the option to drill-down to this "Job Details" dashboard? There's no visual cue that such a drill-down is available. Or am I missing something?
• How does the user know "where" they are in the dashboard "hierarchy"? For now, at the top of each "top-level", multi-job dashboard, I have a Markdown panel with a single row of links to all top-level dashboards. But what visual cue, what navigation information, should I show when the user "drills-down" to the single-job Job Details dashboard? They might have arrived from a number of different "top-level" dashboards: I can't reflect that variability in a Markdown panel. (Related info: Not all top-level dashboards focus on jobs: some focus on showing information about multiple "service classes", for these, I'll likely define a drill-down to a "Service Class Details" dashboard for a single service class. So, there will likely be multiple "second-level" dashboards.) Could the Kibana UI itself offer some assistance here?
• I've had to separately define the same "View job details" dashboard drill-down in multiple visualizations, across multiple dashboards. Could there be a better way?

For further reading on some of these questions, see the following topic (that I created) in the Elastic Kibana discussion forum: "Defining drill-downs per visualization a tad tedious?".

[GrahamHannington]

Is there any progress on this issue, or any other issue being worked on that might help here? I get the feeling that I'm missing something, or coming at this from the wrong angle: only 3 comments on this issue and no one assigned? (And #70653, also unassigned?) I would have thought this was a common use case: a set of dashboards presented as a hierarchy, and for Kibana to show your position in that hierarchy.

[IanLee1521]

It's something that we've bumped in to as well, so at least more than just you @GrahamHannington