Link to Discover from Visualization Options in Dashboard

[perchyp]

Describe the feature:

It is often requested to allow a drill down into a discover saved search/query relevant to a visualization from a dashboard, however clicking is reserved for filtering (which is fine)

It is possible to work around by including a link to the saved search or query that powers the visualization, however this can be a lot of work when you have many dashboards with many visualizations. Also, it can be a pain to maintain.

Please consider adding an Option to the visualization Options in a dashboard to view the underlying saved search or query powering the visualization. Or, if there is a way to do this that I'm missing, please let me know.

Describe a specific use case for the feature:

Many people have a use case for a drill down feature from visualizations. It has been requested many times. The work around is ok but is hard to maintain and takes a lot of work when you have dozens of dashboards with 20-30 visualizations each. To make a markdown visualization for every visualization I have double the number of visualizations. It's hard to maintain so many markdown visualizations with links when it could be managed programmatically. Also it makes the dashboard ugly for every visualization to have a markdown visualization with a link to the saved search for the visualization next to it.

I have made a mock up for the Options menu of a Visualization on Dashboard to include a link to discover.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app-arch (Team:AppArch)

[kohlmanj-hs]

I have also had a number of similar requests from our user group. In addition to what is listed above, our users are also asking for the ability to be able to click/hover on an "item" in a visualization and click something and be taken to a Discover window with a filter for the item field name and value. As an example:

• The visualization is using metricbeat-* index pattern
• it shows a timeseries of CPU for kubernetes nodes
• users would like to be able to hover/click on a node name and say Open in Discover.
• I could image that when you hover over an "item" in a visualization, currently there are choices for + or - to filter, you could image a third choice, "Open in Discover"
• when you get to the disvocer window, it should have pre-populated the index pattern used in the visualization and set a filter for that "item" name is "the value" the user was hovering on.

[vadimkibana]

It is now possible to do:

• In panel context menu there is now "Explore data in Discover" action.
• Also from the panel context menu it is possible to create a "Open in Discover" drilldown.