Kibana 7.12 Discover: Document JSON view displays nested values separately and unsorted

[sandbender (Christian)]

Hello,

After upgrading to Kibana v7.12.0, in Discover, fields of documents displayed in JSON view are unsorted and not visibly collected in the objects they are stored in. That's a pain in the ass when trying to grasp the data at a glance, which was very convenient before 7.12.0. (Sorry for the language but this is absolutely enervating!)

Is there a setting to disable this messy display?

[flash1293 (Joe Reuter)]

I think you are looking for this feature request: [Discover] Add _source tab to doc viewer · Issue #95946 · elastic/kibana · GitHub

For now you can switch back to the old way of fetching data by setting the discover:searchFieldsFromSource advanced setting in Stack management.

[sandbender (Christian)]

Thanks @flash1293, with the settings change it's readable again.

[wylie (Wylie Conlon)]

@sandbender There are some features that you won't see if you use _source only: Discover uses the fields API in 7.12 | Elastic Blog

[sandbender (Christian)]

Thanks @wylie, I skimmed through that. Looks all great but 'unfortunately' (for the potential love story between fields API and me) I need to see data (for debugging) in a way that is quick-snap and simple.

@timroes suggestion over here [Discover] Add _source tab to doc viewer #95946 for replacing the JSON tab in Discover with something more raw/readable would be very much appreciated. Probably by anyone who trains their eye on visual patterns to scan through 'raw' data...