Saving and reusing filters in filter aggregation

[w33ble]

Being able to save a list of filter aggs and re-use that those lists across other visualizations would be super useful.

When using filter aggs, I find myself messing around with saved vis objects a lot to try to re-use filters, which isn't a great experience.

[rashidkpc]

We should really do this, but we should make sure we create an abstraction for filters as the Elasticsearch filter DSL has not remained stable enough to store the raw filters. and we need to make sure all the saved filters don't break on upgrades of Elasticsearch.

[timroes]

I think this feature request was actually saving filters in a Filters aggregation in the visualization editor (not in the filter bar) to be able to reuse them in another chart. Thus relabeling this.

[narschang]

As a Kibana user, I think we need to save the filter in both the query bar and visualization. Or can one saved filter be used in both the visualization and query bar - I constantly finding myself punch in the same filter criteria in the search bar and when creating visualizations.

Furthermore, it's not just how many times a user has to type in the same thing. The fundamental issue is that when I use the same filter in 20 different visualizations or saved searches it's getting difficult to maintain searches and visualizations.

Not sure if there is a plan to make the saved filters available. Please let me know if the developers are looking for concrete use cases for this issue. I have examples for deeper discussion if that will help.

By the way, thanks for the ELK team's good work!! I am using ELK to understand data and create visualizations and dashboards every day. Kibana has become an important tool for my team to understand what's going on and what needs to be done.

[smerzlyakov]

Must have feature! Otherwise filters are useless. If you cant reuse it, you will write long searches and not filters.

[M-Louw]

I agree on the filter aggregation here. I've just manually set multiple filter agrregation containing all weekday names and then all month names on multiple visualizations, because it seems to be the only way I can be sure to get the correct sorting on those buckets.
If not the possibility to save a filter aggregation, then maybe just some common ones e.g. weekday names and month names. My guess is a lot of times you use filter aggregation will be in such cases.

[stratoula]

Closing in favor of #47192