[Background search] Enable by default by AlexGPlay · Pull Request #242105 · elastic/kibana

AlexGPlay · 2025-11-06T11:10:14Z

Summary

Enables by default background search in all the environments.

With this we get access by default to the background search feature, this allows users to run long running queries asynchronously while they continue using Kibana normally.

Users can also access their backgrounded searches and see the current status of each of them or open them once they are completed.

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kibanamachine · 2025-11-13T11:53:32Z

Cloud deployment initiated, see credentials at: https://buildkite.com/elastic/kibana-deploy-cloud-from-pr/builds/559

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AlexGPlay · 2025-11-19T10:07:34Z

/oblt-deploy

AlexGPlay · 2025-11-19T11:05:28Z

Confirmed with the oblt serverless deploy + cloud deploy that it's enabled with this changes

AlexGPlay · 2025-11-20T09:57:41Z

src/platform/test/functional/services/search_sessions.ts

 import type { WebElementWrapper } from '@kbn/ftr-common-functional-ui-services';
 import type { SavedObjectsFindResponse } from '@kbn/core/server';
-import { FtrService } from '@kbn/test-suites-src/functional/ftr_provider_context';
+import { FtrService } from '../ftr_provider_context';


i've moved this from the x-pack functional services folder to the base functional services so I can reuse it in the serverless tests - happy to do it in some other way if this is not ideal

AlexGPlay · 2025-11-20T09:58:44Z

x-pack/platform/test/serverless/functional/test_suites/discover/background_search/_exists.ts

+    'svlCommonPage',
+  ]);
+
+  describe('Discover background search', function () {


i can't do a real test of storing/recovering a background search because delay can't be used in ESQL in this tests and stall_time_seconds can be used in classic either so i'm just adding some basic tests to ensure that the feature is present

Hmm, makes sense... this is a real bummer, maybe we can bring this up to the team and see if there are any options here.

To quickly follow up, we might get support from ES side here, so we should be able to treat serverless and stateful the same way

elasticmachine · 2025-11-20T10:00:14Z

Pinging @elastic/kibana-data-discovery (Team:DataDiscovery)

kertal · 2025-11-20T11:13:44Z

🥳 @AlexGPlay I think with this PR we should do another round of testing then @ninoslavmiskovic @lukasolson, also checking for serverless

jeramysoucy

Kibana security changes LGTM

lukasolson

LGTM, did some testing on the provided instance but it was limited for the same reason we are missing a functional test here to verify actual saving/loading. Let's bring this up with the team and see if there are any other options.

lukasolson · 2025-11-24T21:41:16Z

.github/CODEOWNERS

 /src/platform/test/functional/services/field_editor.ts @elastic/kibana-data-discovery
 /src/platform/test/functional/services/embedding.ts @elastic/appex-qa
 /src/platform/test/functional/services/data_grid.ts @elastic/kibana-data-discovery
+/src/platform/test/functional/services/search_sessions.ts @elastic/search-kibana


This is odd, shouldn't this be our team? I don't know why it was search before.

yeah, that seemed weird - i can reassign that to us if it makes sense

Yes, I think it makes sense to reassign to us

lukasolson · 2025-11-24T23:17:41Z

x-pack/platform/test/serverless/api_integration/test_suites/platform_security/authorization.ts

+
+        for (const privilege of subFeaturesPrivileges.values()) {
+          if (privilege.id === 'store_search_session') expect(privilege.disabled).not.toBe(true);
+          else expect(privilege.disabled).toBe(true);


Is this an explicit decision we made to show this privilege? It probably makes sense, just wanted to make sure.

lukasolson · 2025-11-24T23:18:44Z

x-pack/platform/test/serverless/functional/test_suites/discover/background_search/_exists.ts

+    'svlCommonPage',
+  ]);
+
+  describe('Discover background search', function () {


Hmm, makes sense... this is a real bummer, maybe we can bring this up to the team and see if there are any options here.

jloleysens

config/serverless.yaml LGTM

pheyos

Test service relocation and serverless test config changes LGTM

elasticmachine · 2025-12-04T10:08:49Z

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Commit: aab7796
Cloud Deployment
Kibana Serverless Image: docker.elastic.co/kibana-ci/kibana-serverless:pr-242105-aab77965cf37

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ninoslavmiskovic

LGTM

## Summary Closes elastic#236543 Enables by default background search in all the environments. With this we get access by default to the background search feature, this allows users to run long running queries asynchronously while they continue using Kibana normally. <img width="1875" height="971" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fe34fd9d-cc2c-45c8-84d7-4fc76f62f16f" /> Users can also access their backgrounded searches and see the current status of each of them or open them once they are completed. <img width="1875" height="971" alt="image (1)" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8113b476-4719-4bc1-88b3-bddbc224091d" /> <img width="1878" height="972" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/25af3be3-e88e-4e51-aca6-fc21cf1660f2" /> ### Checklist Check the PR satisfies following conditions. Reviewers should verify this PR satisfies this list as well. - [x] [Unit or functional tests](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/development-tests.html) were updated or added to match the most common scenarios - [x] The PR description includes the appropriate Release Notes section, and the correct `release_note:*` label is applied per the [guidelines](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/contributing.html#kibana-release-notes-process) - [x] Review the [backport guidelines](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VyN5k91e5OVumlc0Gb9RPa3h1ewuPE705nRtioPiTvY/edit?usp=sharing) and apply applicable `backport:*` labels.

AlexGPlay self-assigned this Nov 6, 2025

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AlexGPlay force-pushed the 236543-enable-bgs branch 2 times, most recently from 9f2ddae to 3f002ce Compare November 13, 2025 08:08

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