[Lens] Color options for string cells in tables

[teresaalvarezsoler]

Describe the feature: Users would like to have the ability to add colors to text/cells (non-numeric) in Lens Tables based on categorical values. This is only possible now for numerical values.

Describe a specific use case for the feature: Some use cases include setting colours for scales (high, med, low) or differentiating elements by colour (e.g. different cluster names, services, hosts, etc.)

In scope keyword fields, IP addresses, timestamps

Out of scope Intervals

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-visualizations (Team:Visualizations)

[MichaelMarcialis]

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[IanLee1521]

@MichaelMarcialis - you say intervals are out of scope, but just out of curiosity, what about something like regex matches? something like *.acmecorp.example ?

For IP Addresses, would we be able to match a full string IP? not a CIDR, but a literal 1.2.3.4 ip address for example

[teresaalvarezsoler]

Hi @IanLee1521, thanks for your questions. After doing a bit more research to get this ticket dev ready, we found it should be easy to support the values for IP fields. I'm changing the ticket description.

Regarding the support of regex for color assignment, it makes sense but it's a higher effort feature. I'm adding this request to the meta issue for Color mappings https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/167506 so we can discuss priorization with the team in the future.

[IanLee1521]

Sounds good, thank you @teresaalvarezsoler !

[IanLee1521]

This is awesome, thank you!!