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[Background search] Disable Background search as default setting#237806

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Summary

To enable Background search , which was enabled in #236818 the addition of

data.search.sessions.enabled: true

is now required to enable the background search experience.

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kertal commented Oct 7, 2025

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kertal commented Oct 8, 2025

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@kertal kertal self-assigned this Oct 8, 2025
@kertal kertal changed the title [Discover] Disable background search enabled as default Oct 8, 2025
@kertal kertal changed the title [Background searhc] Disable Background search as default Oct 8, 2025
@kertal kertal changed the title [Background searhc] Disable Background search as default setting Oct 8, 2025
@kertal kertal added Feature:Discover Discover Application Project:AsyncSearch Background search, partial results, async search services. release_note:skip Skip the PR/issue when compiling release notes Team:DataDiscovery Discover, search (data plugin and KQL), data views, saved searches. For ES|QL, use Team:ES|QL. t// and removed Feature:Discover Discover Application labels Oct 8, 2025
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Confirmed I no longer see the background search split button or global flyout button without data.search.sessions.enabled: true, thanks! Looks like it's just missing some backport labels.

@kertal kertal added backport:version Backport to applied version labels v9.2.0 labels Oct 9, 2025
@kertal kertal merged commit a58b940 into elastic:main Oct 9, 2025
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Starting backport for target branches: 9.2

https://github.com/elastic/kibana/actions/runs/18365458481

kibanamachine pushed a commit to kibanamachine/kibana that referenced this pull request Oct 9, 2025
With this PR Background search is default and it needs the setting of  `data.search.sessions.enabled: true` in kibana.yml to enable it

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💚 All backports created successfully

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9.2

Note: Successful backport PRs will be merged automatically after passing CI.

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# Backport

This will backport the following commits from `main` to `9.2`:
- [Disable Background search by default
(#237806)](#237806)

<!--- Backport version: 9.6.6 -->

### Questions ?
Please refer to the [Backport tool
documentation](https://github.com/sorenlouv/backport)

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Co-authored-by: Matthias Polman <matthias.wilhelm@elastic.co>
rylnd pushed a commit to rylnd/kibana that referenced this pull request Oct 17, 2025
With this PR Background search is default and it needs the setting of  `data.search.sessions.enabled: true` in kibana.yml to enable it
NicholasPeretti pushed a commit to NicholasPeretti/kibana that referenced this pull request Oct 27, 2025
With this PR Background search is default and it needs the setting of  `data.search.sessions.enabled: true` in kibana.yml to enable it
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backport:version Backport to applied version labels Project:AsyncSearch Background search, partial results, async search services. release_note:skip Skip the PR/issue when compiling release notes Team:DataDiscovery Discover, search (data plugin and KQL), data views, saved searches. For ES|QL, use Team:ES|QL. t// v9.2.0 v9.3.0

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