Hi! I'm looking for a feature that I don't think is possible to do now, but I hope it will come in the future. We are using Kibana dashboards to get insights into our sales performance. I want to be able set a variable in the dashboard ( f ex total sales in this time range) and be able to use this …

You can start typing a query like FROM index | WHERE field == and then select "Create control" and you will be able to write an ES|QL query to retrieve the values

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Dashboard variables set dynamically from a query

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tallakh (Tallak) July 30, 2025, 11:02am 12

Thanks!

Will this work in Kibana Maps ES|QL layers as well?

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