Prepend <datasource-name>. to index pattern name to differentiate across data sources

[kristenTian]

In Discover, Prepend datasource. to the index pattern name to help users differentiate between data sources

[zhongnansu]

does it mean when we create a index pattern with data source ,and we want to name is "ds-1". After creation, what actually saved in the index is with name field datasource.ds-1?

[kristenTian]

I don't think so, it should be a UI tweak in Discover app, after the UX review meeting, let's decide which phase this feature is needed.

[ashwin-pc]

@kristenTian Is MD not transparent to the applications? Will each plugin need to be modified to support MD?

[kristenTian]

Synced offline. In short, for plugin leveraging data plugin search client will be transparent.

[zhongnansu]

@kristenTian is this still on track for 2.5?

[kavilla]

Will this be enough? Or did we want to maybe to try some A/B testing to verify if this will help our users differentiate?

[kristenTian]

This is the related task: #2597 (comment).

Basically the following components are involved:

• Save Object listing page support
• Visualization creation
• Discover page support

This can definitely be helpful to users when there are duplicated index pattern names.

[joshuarrrr]

@kristenTian Assigning to you, as it appears you have the parent task assigned.

[joshuarrrr]

bumped release target to 2.6.0.

[zhongnansu]

closing this to avoid confusion, as there's another issue #3604 opened to track the same issue