[Feedback] Visualization Builder - Experimental Release

[ashwin-pc]

OpenSearch Dashboards provides tools to help you visualize and explore your data. The Visualization Builder aims to make it faster and more intuitive for you create and modify visualizations on the fly. This experimental release introduces a new drag-and-drop visualization type to interactively build charts. We have created this issue to gather feedback on your experiences with the feature.

[herrkutt]

Hello!
Just updated to 2.3.0 using docker (opensearch-dashboards:latest). I'm very excited to test and provide feedback on this feature as it will allow some of my users to make visualizations much faster :)
However, in my cluster I am unable to get the "Wizard" option to show up. I have enabled the experimental visualization option (and toggled it on/off, as per: https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/dashboards/drag-drop-wizard/), tried putting in the url manually (with help from the playground) but am not getting anything to show.

Any other options that need to get toggled? Maybe in my docker-compose file?

[ashwin-pc]

@herrkutt thanks for calling that out. Looks like the doc needs to be updated. The plugin is disabled by default and you will need to enable it by adding the flag wizard.enabled:true in the opensearch_dashboards.yml file. The advanced settings option is just another way for the visualization type to be disabled. But that also disables the other experimental vis type "Controls"

[kolchfa-aws]

@herrkutt - Please see updated info in the docs:
https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/dashboards/drag-drop-wizard/
If you have the default yml file, you can just uncomment the last line and change the value to true:
wizard.enabled: true
If you have your own yml file, just add the line above to your file.

[joshuarrrr]

Additionally, for any developers running it locally, config values can be set as flags: yarn start --wizard.enabled=true

[ashwin-pc]

From version 2.4 of OpenSearch Dashboards this config value has been updated to vis_builder.enabled and is enabled by default. Use the flag to disable it in production.

[ic-ruben-burgue]

I am testing line chart and line colors are not being saved when you customize them.

[ashwin-pc]

@ic-ruben-burgue Thanks for the feedback. We are aware of this issue and I have opened an issue to track the root cause of this #3124. That being said we also have an issue open to better handle colors for visualizations #2507. @joshuarrrr given that this feature is already available on existing visualizations, what do you think is a good approach moving forward here for VisBuilder?

[ryn9]

@ashwin-pc - just started testing this with AWS managed OpenSearch 2.5.
using bar, line, and area, would it be possible to allow "drill in" according to what is selected on the X-axis.
If we have @timestamp on the X-axis - could we point and drag for the time wish to drill into?

[ashwin-pc]

@ryn9 Thanks for the feedback! Yes, this feature is coming in the 2.7 release of OpenSearch Dashboards

[ryn9]

I cannot wait! :)

[BenJammin18]

Adding comment here from my feature request.
It would be highly beneficial if VisBuilder supported layers. The ability to toggle between inputs like in Kibana Lens as well as having multiple index patterns as inputs is really crucial to analytics. Would love to see something like that soon.

[ashwin-pc]

Thanks @BenJammin18 layers is definitely on the roadmap

[ilsaloving]

How soon before this is considered production ready? If the existing visualization system were any more of a hot mess, we could name it Pompei. Laughably bad UI... Zero documentation... It wasn't until I started using VisBuilder, was I able to understand how visualizations worked.

[ashwin-pc]

@ilsaloving Thanks for your feedback. This is going into production with the current 2.15 release :) We have more changes coming soon, but starting 2.15 you should be able to use this in production.

[kolchfa-aws]

@ashwin-pc Does this feature needs documentation for 2.15?