Canvas Shareable updates with live data

[timductive]

Describe the feature:
This is Phase 2 of the Canvas Shareables project. As of 7.5 Canvas workpads can be embedded in any html site as a static workpad.

Describe a specific use case for the feature:
This will hook the Shareable to an API endpoint to provide live updates to the data.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-canvas (Team:Canvas)

[cskowronnek]

Is there a timeline when this will be available?

[timductive]

Hi @cskowronnek no timeline at the moment. This is an important priority for us though.

[iget-esoares]

Is elastic team working on this feature? Very important to us!

[RosieDV]

Is this feature already available?

[heinricl]

We are also interested in this. This would be a very useful feature for us!

[poffdeluxe]

With the release of anonymous access in 7.11 we can begin to look at implementation for this feature.

After setting up anonymous access in my kibana.yml and creating an anonymous user on a local branch, I created an option in the Canvas share settings to grab an iframe that can be dropped into HTML.

From the technical side, we should investigate:

• Feasibility of using an API key for anonymous access and retrieving the workpad
• Deactivating the button/share options when an anonymous user is not setup

From the product side, we need to figure out how a user will interact with this feature, whether it replaces static shareables, etc

@kmartastic @clintandrewhall

[niteeshhegde]

any further updates/timmelines?

[AlexM566]

Is this working now ?

[poffdeluxe]

With the release of anonymous access (in 7.11), there is a way to have a live updating Canvas embedded on a webpage. For a walkthrough you can check out my post here: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/share-canvas-embed-on-website/273006/3

Even though this will work for a lot of use cases, we're still looking into making the user experience cleaner so that it's even easier to set up a live Canvas embed.

[ThomThomson]

Closing this one for now because this is a very large undertaking that we are currently not able to prioritize for Canvas.