Disable Kibana Auto Form Submit

[kdotson3263k]

Describe the feature:
I would like an option to disable Kibana's automatic form submission.

Currently, when you navigate to the Discover/Dashboard/Visualization page, Kibana will automatically submit the form based on the default index or last search. In addition, forms will submit when a filter property is changed. when the time is updated, or a saved filter is opened.

I am suggesting an option in the settings to disable the automatic form submit and only submit the form when the user clicks the "search" button.

Describe a specific use case for the feature:
The use case is to save cycles on large datasets/queries and allow the user to make multiple changes to a query before the form is submitted.

Thanks for the consideration!

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app

[kvmuralidhar]

I am interested in this.

[AlonaNadler]

@kdotson3263k that is a valid request, just wondering if you had a stop button that terminate the query from the UI will that be sufficient? or do you still won't to have manual submitting for queries setting ?

[lukasolson]

Related: #7238

[cjcenizal]

I just witnessed the pain this can cause a user first-hand while I was on a call. When queries are time-intensive the user experience is absolutely terrible and productivity plummets. As mentioned in the issue description, the ideal UX would be:

1. Don't send any requests when Discover is loaded
2. Allow user to make changes to query, filters, and time-range (still without sending any request)
3. Only send request when the user has clicked the Refresh button

I think we can address this in a BWC manner by offering an Advanced Settings option for "Refresh Elasticsearch queries immediately" with a default value of true. This setting could have an explanation like this:

Discover, Visualize, and Dashboard fetch data when these apps are loaded and when you change the query, filters, or time-range. This can be suboptimal if requests tend to take a long time. Disable this setting to only fetch data when you click the Refresh button.

[kertal]

For Discover this was implemented recently #42036

[ruslan528]

It's such an obvious inconvenience. I don't understand why it hasn't been resolved yet.

[ghudgins]

Discover supports this today: #42036 (advanced setting)

@ruslan528 which experience are you hoping for this in? Dashboard controls? Visualization editors?

[stratoula]

It seems that this has been resolved.