Filter(dropdown) at individual visualization using Vega-lite

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How to create filter or dropdown at individual visualization level using Vega-lite.
Our current Elasticsearch and Kibana version is 7.9.3.
We are aware of Kibana's Control-Visualization at Dashboard level. But wanted to create extra filter at individual visualization level.

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In general, this won't be possible for two reasons:

  • The way that Kibana's Vega parser works doesn't support dynamic ES queries. This is documented as one of the main limitations in the Kibana Vega reference.
  • In Kibana 7.9.3, Vega was at 5.13 and Vega-Lite was at 4.13- Vega-Lite only started supporting interactive controls in 5, which we started using in Kibana 7.13.

There is a limited workaround that might work if you can apply your filter criteria using Vega instead of Elasticsearch, and if you are able to convert to Vega.

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Thanks Wylie, for your quick response. We have installed 7.13 in one of the instance. We will try it.
Is there any guide or article to go through. Or vega-lite guide is enough?

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Like I said, I think that you are asking for something that can't be done unless you are able to able define your filter criteria using Vega. The relevant section of the Vega-Lite docs (for Vega-Lite 5) is binding parameters and the Vega docs also explain binding.

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