Uptime and User Experience to be available in Navigational Search

[paulb-elastic]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Navigational Search is going to be deployed in the Kibana UI, so we want to ensure that the Uptime and User Experience apps are identified when searching for associated text.

Describe the solution you'd like
The Uptime and User Experience apps should be identified when searching for specific keywords. The keywords are to be determined as part of this, but for example, searching for synthetic may provide a search result for the Uptime app.

Additional context
There is a Kibana issue that describes the wider issue where Observability apps are not being identified in searches.

This issue is to address this specifically for the Uptime and User Experience apps:

Main app links

• Identify which keywords should match which apps
• Apply to Uptime
• Apply to User Experience

Deep links (as referenced in elastic/kibana#86165)

• Identify which keywords should match to which deep links
• Apply to Uptime

[paulb-elastic]

@drewpost can you help define the search terms for each of the apps please?

[drewpost]

Uptime: Synthetic(s), ping(s), check(s), availability, response duration, response time, outside in, reachability, reachable, digital, performance, web performance, web perf
User Experience: RUM, Real User Monitoring, DEM, Digital Experience Monitoring, EUM, End User Monitoring, UX, Javascript, APM, Mobile, digital, performance, web performance, web perf

cc @paulb-elastic @andrewvc

[alexfrancoeur]

Linking out to the broader initiative of registering search aliases for registered applications and features elastic/kibana#76778

[paulb-elastic]

Added reference to elastic/kibana#86165, to also add deep links to the navigational search

[alexfrancoeur]

Spreading the news that aliases are now supported with elastic/kibana#76778

[paulb-elastic]

@drewpost, elastic/kibana#86165 mentions about adding deep links as well, to go directly to Overview and Settings.

By definition, all of the search terms you’ve listed above (for Uptime) will go to the Overview page anyway (as this is the landing page for Uptime).

However, do you have a view on what terms should result in Settings?

For example, should searching for uptime show a search result for Uptime (which would go to Overview), but also show a result for Uptime Settings which takes the user to the Settings page?

Are there any other terms to add that show a deep link result to the Settings page?

[drewpost]

@paulb-elastic That's a decent point. TBH, that's about the only example I can think of that would go somewhere else. Unless we get really clever ie identifying monitor names and dynamically adding them to the searchable index so I could search for "Checkout Flow" and it shows Uptime there and. deep links into the monitor

[shahzad31]

Another cool nav point would be if user searches for "Down monitors" we can land them to overview page by filtering to down monitors, same can be true for "Down websites" for browser checks.

[shahzad31]

I believe we can also add for other filters if needs be

"TCP Pings", "ICMP Pings" "HTTP Pings" etc

[shahzad31]

@drewpost to have a more dynamic search provider, where you can even search using, monitor names, url et, one can register search provider in the app

https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/x-pack/plugins/global_search#registering-custom-result-providers

that you can power using your own custom search api.