Task manager UI

[bmcconaghy]

Implement task manager UI.

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-stack-services

[alexfrancoeur]

The ES-UI team is building out a tasks UI (https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-team/issues/227) and after some discussion on slack, the general consensus (without design input) is that we should have a single UI for both Elasticsearch and Kibana tasks. At the moment, they are targeting the same release as us for this UI. @alisonelizabeth is leading this effort. Does it make sense to touch base and align our efforts sooner than later? I'd also like to get some design input on this decision.

[peterschretlen]

Aside from the name these strike me as pretty different concepts.

Task management in elasticsearch is about in-progress work on a cluster. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tasks.html
It makes me think of task manager on windows / activity monitor on Mac / top on linux
It's like a snapshot in time of in-progress work, a lot of which is transient.

Task management is Kibana is more about scheduled work or periodic work. It's like a cron job manager or task scheduler. Most of the tasks won't be active at a given time. They may have concepts like a task history or audit log. A kibana task could end up creating one or more elasticsearch tasks.

It may make sense to co-locate them in the UI for people trying to centrally manage resources, but I'd expect they'd need very different UI.

[alexfrancoeur]

+1, I agree they are very different but as discussed in slack we'll need to think through the UI/UX for all of the task related "things" (slow queries, ES tasks, reporting, ml jobs, kibana tasks, etc.). Worst case scenario, this is a quick discussion and we decide to continue on with two separate UI's. For anyone following, I'll update this issue with notes after the discussion.

[ymao1]

Closing this old issue. Will re-open when we come closer to implementation.