Kibana visualizations can be added in a dashboard by value or by reference. As historically by value did not exist, most dashboards are still using by reference. Switching to value has the advantage that the dashboards are fully self contained and only need a single request to be installed. Because of this existing dashboards should be moved over to use by value.

The biggest have the most used packages and the ones with many dashboards and visualisations. This meta issue is to track the work on migrating these packages.

• Kubernetes Add OOTB Kubernetes dashboard to Kubernetes integration & implement best dashboard creation practices #3115
• System Migrate system dashboards to by value #3449
• AWS (multiple) Migrate AWS dashboards to by value #3454 and Migrate awsfargate dashboards to by value #3455
• [GCP] Migrate package dashboards to by value visualization #3719
• Security external integrations [security-external-integrations packages] Migrate dashboards to by_value #3463
• Azure [Azure] Convert dashboards to use by-value visualizations #4922

As soon as this list is migrated, we should expand it to all integrations.

Migration script

A migration script was created to help with this effort: https://github.com/flash1293/legacy_vis_analyzer

Documentation

• Update development guidelines to prescript using by-value visualizations
  • See dashboards guidelines