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Query Elasticsearch

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[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Vega data elements use embedded and external data with a "url" parameter. Kibana adds support for direct Elasticsearch queries by overloading the "url" value.

With Vega, you dynamically load your data by setting signals as data URLs. Since Kibana is unable to support dynamically loaded data, all data is fetched before it’s passed to the Vega renderer.

For example, count the number of documents in all indices:

// An object instead of a string for the URL value
// is treated as a context-aware Elasticsearch query.
url: {
  // Specify the time filter.
  %timefield%: @timestamp
  // Apply dashboard context filters when set
  %context%: true

  // Which indexes to search
  index: _all
  // The body element may contain "aggs" and "query" subfields
  body: {
    aggs: {
      time_buckets: {
        date_histogram: {
          // Use date histogram aggregation on @timestamp field
          field: @timestamp 
          // interval value will depend on the time filter
          // Use an integer to set approximate bucket count
          interval: { %autointerval%: true }
          // Make sure we get an entire range, even if it has no data
          extended_bounds: {
            min: { %timefilter%: "min" }
            max: { %timefilter%: "max" }
          }
          // Use this for linear (e.g. line, area) graphs
          // Without it, empty buckets will not show up
          min_doc_count: 0
        }
      }
    }
    // Speed up the response by only including aggregation results
    size: 0
  }
}

@timestamp — Filters the time range and breaks it into histogram buckets.

The full result includes the following structure:

{
  "aggregations": {
    "time_buckets": {
      "buckets": [{
          "key_as_string": "2015-11-30T22:00:00.000Z",
          "key": 1448920800000,
          "doc_count": 28
        }, {
          "key_as_string": "2015-11-30T23:00:00.000Z",
          "key": 1448924400000, 
          "doc_count": 330
        }, ...

"key" — The unix timestamp you can use without conversions by the Vega date expressions.

For most visualizations, you only need the list of bucket values. To focus on only the data you need, use format: {property: "aggregations.time_buckets.buckets"}.

Specify a query with individual range and dashboard context. The query is equivalent to "%context%": true, "%timefield%": "@timestamp", except that the time range is shifted back by 10 minutes:

{
  body: {
    query: {
      bool: {
        must: [
          // This string will be replaced
          // with the auto-generated "MUST" clause
          "%dashboard_context-must_clause%"
          {
            range: {
              // apply timefilter (upper right corner)
              // to the @timestamp variable
              @timestamp: {
                // "%timefilter%" will be replaced with
                // the current values of the time filter
                // (from the upper right corner)
                "%timefilter%": true
                // Only work with %timefilter%
                // Shift current timefilter by 10 units back
                shift: 10
                // week, day (default), hour, minute, second
                unit: minute
              }
            }
          }
        ]
        must_not: [
          // This string will be replaced with
          // the auto-generated "MUST-NOT" clause
          "%dashboard_context-must_not_clause%"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

The "%timefilter%" can also be used to specify a single min or max value. The date_histogram’s extended_bounds can be set with two values - min and max. Instead of hardcoding a value, you may use "min": {"%timefilter%": "min"}, which will be replaced with the beginning of the current time range. The shift and unit values are also supported. The "interval" can also be set dynamically, depending on the currently picked range: "interval": {"%autointerval%": 10} will try to get about 10-15 data points (buckets).

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