This is going to be especially important with the upcoming add data features since they will also handle creating index patterns, but it's a problem for x-pack as well. Which means it's probably a use-case we need to solve for applications in general. Users should be able to access the security UI as well as the monitoring application without having first created an index pattern in Kibana. It shouldn't matter whether one is a top level application (i.e. monitoring) or a utility in management (i.e. security).

This originated from @lukasolson in #7135 (comment)