Stop/pause all in-flight search requests

[wylieconlon]

I have seen two requests for this feature in the last day, for example this discuss user. Even though most searches are auto-cancelled when you make a change, users seem to be unaware that this is happening.

The main reasons for users to ask this seem to be:

1. They have realized they made a mistake, and want to make changes to their configuration
2. They want to interact with the data that is already available, without new data changing what they see

In terms of potential interfaces, here is a rough idea of how this could be implemented:

• Keyboard shortcut to pause searches. This was explicitly requested by a user.
• Pause button
• Visual indicator that UI changes are cancelling older searches

[elasticmachine]

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

[Dosant]

While searches still in progress you can use search session UI to "stop a session". Search requests that support abort would be stopped

Seems like this is covering the request?

[wylieconlon]

@Dosant I agree that this is a good start, but I don't think this is as complete as it could be: search sessions are not used in every app/solution, and it also takes multiple clicks to get there. For example, we can't stop requests from Lens, or from SIEM. We also can't use a keyboard shortcut yet. Maybe there is a way to rewrite this issue or clarify what is left to do?

[elasticmachine]

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

[kertal]

Closing this because it's not planned to be resolved in the foreseeable future. It will be tracked in our Icebox and will be re-opened if our priorities change. Feel free to re-open if you think it should be melted sooner.