[Lens] Ability to customize your tooltip fields

[alexfrancoeur]

I've heard this request a few times now. Some users would like to provide some additional context for fields in both a data table and discover. This custom tooltip would ideally be defined within the index pattern for a field in order to be shown globally within Kibana.

Equally, it would be nice to control if that field on a tooltip is shown or not.

[omerdemb]

This will be very useful.
Please work to add

[ParveenOnGit]

Yes, that will be very helpful. Please work on this one.
Thanks.

[omarram]

that would be a very nice feature, please add it

[pfennema]

I've created a small bookmarklet javascript which add tooltips to the discover page. It retrieves the description shown in the tooltip from a component template which has meta data for every field. The component templates have been added by means of interrogating a database schema and adding the information into a component template with the same name as the database table. With this information at hand the javascript gets the name of the index pattern on the discover page and used this to find the index template via a rest call. Then the component templates are fetched via the 'composed_of' field.

However there are quite a number of drawbacks as I need to create a separate connection to ElasticSearch (adding username/password etc), host the javascript separately with all kind of security implications.
I'd like to add this into a Kibana plug-in but cannot find a proper tutorial to only add some javascript to Kibana. Anyone having a pointer/tutorial on how to do this?

[stratoula]

Closing as duplicate of #106024