Beats dashboards with links come up blank

[liza-mae]

Kibana version: 7.11.0 BC 1

Elasticsearch version: 7.11.0 BC 1

Server OS version: Ubuntu

Browser version: Chrome Latest

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.):
staging

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
Go to a beats dashboard with links for example: [Packetbeat] Overview ECS or [Metricbeat System] Overview ECS

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install ES/Kibana/beats
2. Go to a dashboard as noted in description and click a link, notice the page is blank (sometimes a console error appears but not consistent and may not be the root cause).

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/integrations (Team:Beats)

[liza-mae]

I saw this PR come in this morning: #86942 which might fix this issue?
cc: @ThomThomson

[ThomThomson]

The blank screen here should be fixed by the above PR, but the blank screen would only have shown up if the links are invalid. The error seems to be unrelated. Would you mind sending me the URL format for the links so I can double check that everything is working properly now?

[liza-mae]

@ThomThomson if the links are invalid then someone from the beats team needs to check why and fix it.

One example of the URLs:

From here:

https://localhost:2201/app/dashboards#/view/Packetbeat-Dashboard-ecs?_g=(filters:!(),refreshInterval:(pause:!t,value:0),time:(from:now-15m,to:now))&_a=(description:'Packetbeat%20overview%20dashboard.',filters:!(),fullScreenMode:!f,options:(darkTheme:!f),query:(language:kuery,query:''),tags:!(),timeRestore:!f,title:'%5BPacketbeat%5D%20Overview%20ECS',viewMode:view)

Clicking a link:

https://localhost:2201/app/dashboards#/dashboard/Packetbeat-Dashboard-ecs

[liza-mae]

Looks like the URLs are invalid, should be

https://localhost:2201/app/dashboards#/view/Packetbeat-Dashboard-ecs

not

https://localhost:2201/app/dashboards#/dashboard/Packetbeat-Dashboard-ecs

[ThomThomson]

Yes that is correct. I am not sure how they were working before. With the fix I implemented, those urls will now correctly redirect to the dashboard listing page.

[liza-mae]

I will re-test and verify on the next BC, thanks.

[jsoriano]

Links in beats dashboards are defined in one of these two ways:

• As #/dashboard/<id> in markdown, e.g:

  "markdown": "[System Overview](#/dashboard/Metricbeat-system-overview-ecs)  | [Host Overview](#/dashboard/79ffd6e0-faa0-11e6-947f-177f697178b8-ecs) |\n[Containers overview](#/dashboard/CPU-slash-Memory-per-container-ecs)"
  

• As ../app/kibana#/dashboard/<id>?<params> in drilldowns, e.g:

  "drilldown_url": "../app/kibana#/dashboard/e9057ae0-47c5-11e8-bc13-1397384faad3-ecs?_a=(query:(language:kuery,query:'haproxy.stat.proxy.name:\"{{ key }}\"'))"
  

  "drilldown_url": "../app/kibana#/dashboard/79ffd6e0-faa0-11e6-947f-177f697178b8-ecs?_a=(query:(language:kuery,query:'host.name:\"{{key}}\"'))",
  

Should we modify these links for future versions of Beats/integrations? They are working fine in 7.10.

[ThomThomson]

@flash1293 discovered in https://github.com/elastic/observability-test-plans/issues/175 that these issues are actually due to a missing BWC case in dashboard in 7.11.0

I have fixed this in #87246, including a functional test to make sure this doesn't happen again.

That said, it could be best to modify the links in the dashboards to the latest format.