Hey everyone,
With the latest/upcoming Kibana 9.0 release, we wanted to provide some clarity around the Search Sessions feature. While it is officially marked as deprecated as of 8.15, it remains available for use in 9.0–you enable it in your self-managed or Elastic Cloud Hosted kibana.yml data.search.sessions.enabled: true. That means if you rely on Search Sessions for long-running queries, you can still access it while we work on a more robust alternative.
We know how valuable Search Sessions have been for backgrounding and persisting search results, and we’re actively working on a new approach tailored for ES|QL. Our goal is to provide a seamless way to run and retrieve long-running queries in the background while improving performance and scalability and improve upon the user experience of search sessions by making this feature more explicit, easier to understand, and available everywhere you see ES|QL in Kibana.
Stay tuned for updates as we refine and roll out this new capability! In the meantime, let us know if you have any questions or feedback about how you use Search Sessions today—your input is invaluable as we shape the next evolution of search in Kibana.