[Home][Guides] Kibana Home + Guides meta issue

[ryankeairns]

Outstanding work to complete the Home + Guides + news feed.

Guides / Videos (Gail, Dave)

• Ingest data into Kibana using Metricbeat @schersh @snide
• Spaces @snide @AlonaNadler
• Feature controls @snide @AlonaNadler
• Introduction to Canvas @gchaps @snide
• Maps

UI prototype and frontend code

You can find a working prototype and design code for this project at https://l9pwrw289.codesandbox.io/ . It might take a minute or two to load.

Newsfeed system

The newsfeed system for the notification center is built and available here https://github.com/elastic/newsfeeds

Engineering work

@bmcconaghy's team will be handling the work for the new homepage, feeds and guide registry.

Related issues

• Redesigned home page to reduce clutter [Home] Redesign Kibana Homepage to reduce clutter #25734
• Highlight new features UI to highlight for new features when Kibana is updated #33361
• Dedicated page for adding data Dedicated page for adding data #26823 This is being handled by Observability as part of [EPM] Elastic Package Manager Plugin - Tracking #36708
• Ability to set a custom home page [Home] Provide the ability to set your own home page #25735

[legrego]

A friendly drive-by reminder: once Feature Controls merges, the home page will need to be flexible enough to only show features that are available. For example, if Canvas is disabled in the current space, or for the current user, then I assume we shouldn't show anything related to Canvas.

We don't have Feature Controls merged yet, so I can't give concrete steps, but the design and implementation should generally be flexible enough to support this. For React-based pages, we will be providing a HoC which will inject boolean flags into your app that you can interrogate to determine if a feature is enabled or not.

We're happy to help with this, but I wanted to try to get ahead of the issue to hopefully make everyone's lives easier down the road.

[ryankeairns]

Thanks for the heads up @legrego !

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-core-ui (Team:Core UI)

[MichaelMarcialis]

We've gathered some additional internal research and started crafting early design concepts for these home page improvements. Adding the links here for visibility.

Design

• Figma mockups
• Figma clickable prototype

[ryankeairns]

Closing this in favor of a more current onboarding issue: #58506

There are also no near term plans to tackle the guides concept, but we can re-open if/when those discussions resurface.