Kibana Dark Theme Now Blue?

[MakoWish (Eric Christensen)]

In Kibana versions up to 8.18.1, the dark theme was black, just as with almost all other software I have used that offers a dark theme. I just upgraded my company's DEV cluster, as well as my home cluster, to 9.0.1, and the very first thing I noticed is that "dark" is no longer black, but just a dark blue. Why was this changed?

EDIT: I can see the theme was deprecated and now just allows you to set it based on your system, but having done so, it is still just dark blue instead of black.

[Lexinga]

@MakoWish

In Kibana versions up to 8.18.1, the dark theme was black, just as with almost all other software I have used that offers a dark theme. I just upgraded my company's DEV cluster, as well as my home cluster, to 9.0.1, and the very first thing I noticed is that "dark" is no longer black, but just a dark blue. Why was this changed?

EDIT: I can see the theme was deprecated and now just allows you to set it based on your system, but having done so, it is still just dark blue instead of black.

I believe many users valued the original black-based dark theme, and it would be great to understand if there are plans to offer more customization or a return to the previous style in the future. This change reminds me of when the summary statistics of important values, which used to appear at the top of timelines, were suddenly removed without warning. I remember showing them to a customer in a "How to investigate" Training and the next Day (after the Upgrade wich should bring improvements) they were gone. Features like these are highly valued by users, and their abrupt disappearance can be quite disruptive. Similarly, altering the dark theme from black to dark blue feels like another instance where a well-appreciated aspect was changed unexpectedly, and not necessarily for the better.

Thank you for considering this feedback.