ignoreFilterIfFieldNotInIndex does not work?

Elastic Stack Kibana
1

Hi there!

I enabled "ignoreFilterIfFieldNotInIndex" option in Kibana Advanced Settings, since I am using 2 data views and I would like to avoid filtering out documents if some field does not exist in the data view

However, it did not work while I successfully used it a few years ago

I found the similar issue on Github:

however, it was for the old Kibana version

Nevertheless, the issue can be reproduced on my current 8.15.0:

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Run the following in Dev Tools to setup some example indices:
PUT my_index_1
{
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "number_of_shards": "1",
      "number_of_replicas": "0"
    }
  }
}

PUT my_index_2
{
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "number_of_shards": "1",
      "number_of_replicas": "0"
    }
  }
}

POST my_index_1/_doc
{
  "field1": "A"
}

POST my_index_1/_doc
{
  "field1": "B"
}

POST my_index_1/_doc
{
  "field1": "C"
}

POST my_index_2/_doc
{
  "field2": "A"
}

POST my_index_2/_doc
{
  "field2": "B"
}

POST my_index_2/_doc
{
  "field2": "C"
}
  1. Create a dashboard with two metric visualizations with a simple Count aggregation, one for each index.
  2. Add a filter on one of the fields, notice that both visualizations get filtered
  3. Enable the advanced setting
  4. Go back to dashboard and create a filter again. Notice both visualizations are still getting filtered.

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Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you!

2

Thanks for your post @nnikushkin I can't replicate this problem, it works fine for me. Can you turn the Advanced Setting off and on again and reload the page afterwards to make sure the change is applied?

3

Thank you @Teresa_Alvarez!

Hmm, indeed, when I redeployed Elastic from the scratch it started working as expected

Thank you for taking a look at it!

Have a wonderful day!