OpenSearch-Dashboards [META] Updated Discover UX - Unified Data Exploration in OpenSearch Dashboards

[META] Updated Discover UX - Unified Data Exploration in OpenSearch Dashboards

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Overview

The following Meta issue is an iteration on the UX in the following proposal: https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/5507

Discover is the central tool for data exploration in OpenSearch Dashboards, and as we look to evolve it into the unified data exploration proposal above we will take incremental steps to get there. The following Meta issue tracks those steps. It also has some iterations on the initial proposal.

Improved look and feel

Users expressed feedback asking for a more compressed UI and cleaner look and feel. Here is a reduced number of controls and chrome to give a more visually pleasing and functional interface.

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6067

Advanced data source selection

This is a proposal to improve data source selection by allowing users to have more control over the data they select, making it easier to create index patterns in Discover, and allowing users to select data from multiple OpenSearch clusters, federated data sources and any community contributed data sources in the future.

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6068

Simplified selector

Improvements to the simplified data source selector that allows users to more quickly select recently selected data sources, and data connections. This selector can also be modified to select indexes, index patterns, federated data sources etc.

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6071
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6070

Query Language Selection

Depending on support from selected data sources users are able to select query languages that they prefer to use to explore their selected data. The default is set in Advanced Settings by an admin, however based on a user’s selection we default to that query language in following sections.

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/5504
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6072
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6074
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6075
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6076
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6077

Data exploration functionality

Improved functionality to allow users to explore and discover insights about their time series data.

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6078
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6079
https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6080

Save and open flows

Improved flows for opening saving queries, searches, and updating existing saved searches.

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6085

Contextual acceleartion

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/issues/6086

For external data sources that have slow query performance, users are able to accelerate their data via skipping index, covering index and materialized views, directly from Discover to improve performance of searches.