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@kilfoyle kilfoyle commented Jan 23, 2026

Summary

This replaces the Painless section that was proposed for the Troubleshooting section of the docs, to instead be a Debugging Painless scripts section in the Explore & Analyze Painless docs.

To my mind, this has two advantages:

  • These Painless pages aren't true "troubleshooting" docs, and I think would not fit well into the Symptoms / Diagnosis / Resolution format that is now standard for that section. Debugging, here, is something that people need to be mindful of as they're composing their scripts, rather than a spontaneous error that needs diagnosis and recovery.
  • Embedding this content into the existing Explore and Analyze section means that we have our Painless info in two locations (narrative + reference), rather than split across three separate parts of the docs. Much better as a user experience, IMHO.

Preview: Please see Debug Painless scripts in Elasticsearch and all sub-topics.


@yetanothertw I made changes as we talked about, except that I didn't move the "root cause" sections. As I read through I realized that these are specific to each example, so they wouldn't make sense where the description is. But, I have moved the "Notes" sections to be part of the descriptions at the top of each page (above the fold).

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@kilfoyle kilfoyle requested a review from yetanothertw January 27, 2026 19:41
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@kilfoyle kilfoyle changed the title DRAFT: Add Painless debugging section Add Painless debugging section Jan 27, 2026
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I think this Debugging section works so well! Great idea 👏

Thanks for incorporating the notes sections into the intros, the information flows much better IMHO. 🎉

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LGTM, just a few nits (or questions since I'm not really sure of how painless works 😅)

Thank you it looks really great to have this type of troubleshooting section and pages

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kilfoyle commented Feb 3, 2026

Thanks a lot for the review @florent-leborgne, and for catching these issues! 🙏

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@kilfoyle kilfoyle merged commit 371b054 into elastic:main Feb 3, 2026
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