# Backport
This will backport the following commits from `8.x` to `8.12`:
- [[DOCS] Remove Upgrade Assistant add default field API
(#217264)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/217264)
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* Fix link to Cloud deployment URL in upgrade step. (#109528)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Refactor CITs
* Rename UA steps to fix_issues_step and fix_logs_step. (#109526)
* Rename tests accordingly.
* [Upgrade Assistant] Cleanup scss (#109524)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Update readme (#109502)
* Add "Back up data" step to UA (#109543)
* Add backup step with static content and link to Snapshot and Restore.
* Add snapshot_restore locator.
* Remove unnecessary describe block from Upgrade Step tests.
* Remove unused render_app.tsx.
* Change copy references of 'deprecation issues' to 'deprecation warnings'. (#109963)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Address design feedback for ES deprecations page (#109726)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Add checkpoint feature to Overview page (#109449)
* Add on-Cloud state to Upgrade Assistant 'Back up data' step (#109956)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Refactor external links to use locators (#110435)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Use AppContext for services instead of KibanaContext (#109801)
* Remove kibana context dependency in favour of app context
* Add missing type to ContextValue
* Fix mock type
* Refactor app mount flow and types
* Refactor to use useServices hook
* Fix linter issues
* Keep mount_management_section and initialize breadcrumbs and api there
* Remove useServices and usePlugins in favour of just useAppContext
* Remove unnecessary mocks
* [Upgrade Assistant] Enable functional and a11y tests (#109909)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Remove version from UA nav title (#110739)
* [Upgrade Assistant] New Kibana deprecations page (#110101)
* Use injected lib.handleEsError instead of importing it in Upgrade Assistant API route handlers. (#111067)
* Add tests for UA back up data step on Cloud (#111066)
* Update UA to consume snapshotsUrl as provided by the Cloud plugin. (#111239)
* Skip flaky UA Backup step polling test.
* [Upgrade Assistant] Refactor kibana deprecation service mocks (#111168)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Remove unnecessary EuiScreenReaderOnly from stat panels (#111518)
* Remove EuiScreenReaderOnly implementations
* Remove unused translations
* Remove extra string after merge conflict
* Use consistent 'issues' and 'critical' vs. 'warning' terminology in UA. (#111221)
* Refactor UA Overview to support step-completion (#111243)
* Refactor UA Overview to store step-completion state at the root and delegate step-completion logic to each step component.
* Add completion status to logs and issues steps
* [Upgrade Assistant] External links with checkpoint time-range applied (#111252)
* Bound query around last checkpoint date
* Fix tests
* Also test discover url contains search params
* Small refactor
* Keep state about lastCheckpoint in parent component
* Remove space
* Address CR changes
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Tests for updating step state accordingly if API poll receives count followed by error (#111701)
* Add test for logs count polling
* Test when count api fails
* [Upgrade Assistant] Add a11y tests for es deprecation flyouts (#110843)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Set fix_logs step as incomplete if log collection is not enabled (#111827)
* set step as incomplete if toggle is disabled
* Fix test names
* Remove unnecessary mocks
* [Upgrade Assistant] Update copy to use "issues" instead of "warnings" (#111817)
* Create common deprecation issues panel component in UA (#111231)
* Refine success state behavior and add tests.
* Refactor components into a components directory.
* Refactor SCSS to colocate styles with their components.
* Refactor tests to reduce boilerplate and clarify conditions under test.
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fix Kibana deprecations warning message
* [Upgrade Assistant] Add support for API keys when reindexing (#111451)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Update readme (#112154)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Make infra plugin optional (#111960)
* Make infra plugin optional
* Fix CR requests
* [Upgrade Assistant] Improve flyout information architecture (#111713)
* Make sure longstrings inside flyout body are text-wrap
* Show resolved badge for reindex flyout and row
* Finish off rest of ES deprecation flyouts
* Refactor deprecation badge into its own component
* Add tests for kibana deprecations
* Add tests for es deprecations
* Also check that we have status=error before rendering error callout
* Check for non-complete states instead of just error
* Small refactor
* Default deprecation is not resolvable
* Add a bit more spacing between title and badge
* Address CR changes
* Use EuiSpacer instead of flexitems
* [Upgrade Assistant] Update readme (#112195)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Add integration tests for Overview page (#111370)
* Add a11y tests for when overview page has toggle enabled
* Add functional and accessibility tests for overview page
* Load test files
* Fix linter error
* Navigate before asserting
* Steps have now completion state
* Remove duped word
* Run setup only once, not per test
* Address CR changes
* No need to renavigate to the page
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Add note about compatibility headers (#110469)
* Improve error states for Upgrade Assistant deprecation issues (#112457)
* Simplify error state for deprecation issues panels. Remove <EsStatsError />.
* Rename components from stats -> panel.
* Create common error-reporting component for use in both Kibana and ES deprecations pages.
* Align order of loading, error, and success states between these pages.
* Change references to 'deprecations' -> 'deprecation issues'.
* Fix tests for panels.
* Add API integration test for handling auth error.
* Fix TS errors.
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* Change count poll time to 15s (#112669)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Add permissions check to logs step (#112420)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Refactor telemetry (#112177)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Check for ML upgrade mode before enabling flyout actions (#112555)
* Add missing error handlers for deprecation logging route (#113109)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Batch reindex docs (#112960)
* [UA] Added batch reindexing docs link to the ES deprecations page. Added a link from "batch reindexing" docs page to "start or resume reindex" docs page and from there to ES reindexing docs page. Also renamed "reindexing operation" to "reindexing task" for consistency.
* [Upgrade Assistant] Added docs build files
* Update x-pack/plugins/upgrade_assistant/public/application/components/es_deprecations/es_deprecations.tsx
Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <40268737+jrodewig@users.noreply.github.com>
* Update x-pack/plugins/upgrade_assistant/public/application/components/es_deprecations/es_deprecations.tsx
Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <40268737+jrodewig@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Added review suggestions and fixed eslint issues
Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <40268737+jrodewig@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Improve error messages for GET /api/upgrade_assistant/reindex/<index> (#112961)
* Add support for single manual steps to Upgrade Assistant. (#113344)
* Revert "[Upgrade Assistant] Refactor telemetry (#112177)" (#113665)
This reverts commit 991d24bad2.
* [Upgrade Assistant] Use skipFetchFields when creating the indexPattern in order to avoid errors if index doesn't exist (#113821)
* Use skipFetchFields when creating the indexPatter in order to avoid errors when index doesnt exist
* Address CR feedback
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Hide system indices from es deprecations list (#113627)
* Refactor reindex routes into separate single and batch reindex files. Apply version precheck to batch routes. (#113822)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Remove ML/Watcher logic (#113224)
* Add show upgrade flag to url (#114243)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Delete deprecation log cache (#114113)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Add upgrade system indices section (#110593)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Reindexing progress (#114275)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Added reindexing progress in % to the reindex flyout and es deprecations table
* [Upgrade Assistant] Renamed first argument in `getReindexProgressLabel` to `reindexTaskPercComplete` for consistency
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Remove Fix manually heading when there are no manual steps
* Add rolling upgrade interstitials to UA (#112907)
* Refactor FixLogsStep to be explicit in which props are passed to DeprecationLoggingToggle.
* Centralize error-handling logic in the api service, instead of handling it within each individual API request. Covers:
- Cloud backup status
- ES deprecations
- Deprecation logging
- Remove index settings
- ML
- Reindexing
Also:
- Handle 426 error state and surface in UI.
- Move ResponseError type into common/types.
* Add note about intended use case of status API route.
* Add endpoint dedicated to surfacing the cluster upgrade state, and a client-side poll.
* Merge App and AppWithRouter components.
* [Upgrade Assistant] Added "accept changes" header to the warnings list in the reindex flyout (#114798)
* Refactor kibana deprecation tests (#114763)
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix linter issues
* Remove unused translation
* Prefer master changes over 7.x for ml docs
* Prefer master changes over 7.x
* Skip tests
* Move everything to a single describe
* Fix types
* Add missing prop to mock
* [Upgrade Assistant] Removed "closed index" warning from reindex flyout (#114861)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Removed "closed index" warning that reindexing might take longer than usual, which is not the case
* [Upgrade Assistant] Also deleted i18n strings that are not needed anymore
* Add LevelIconTips to be more explicit about the difference between critical and warning issues. (#115121)
* Extract common DeprecationFlyoutLearnMoreLink component and change wording to 'Learn more'. (#115117)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Reindexing cancellation (#114636)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Updated the reindexing cancellation to look less like an error
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fixed an i18n issue and updated a jest snapshot
* [Upgrade Assistant] Updated cancelled reindexing state with a unified label and cross icon
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fixed snapshot test
* [Upgrade Assistant] Updated spacing to the reindex cancel button
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix test errors (#115183)
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Overview page UI clean up (#115258)
- Scaling down deprecation issue panel title size to flow with typographic hierarchy.
- Removing panel around deprecation logging switch to reduce visual elements.
- Using success instead of green color for migration complete message.
* Revert "Revert "[Upgrade Assistant] Refactor telemetry (#112177)" (#113665)" (#114804)
This reverts commit c385d49887.
* Add migration to remove obsolete attributes from telemetry saved object.
* Refactor UA telemetry constants by extracting it from common/types.
* [Upgrade Assistant] Rename upgrade_status to migration_status (#114755)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Swapped reindexing flyouts order (#115046)
* [Upgrade Assistant] Changed reindexing steps order, replaced a warning callout with a text element
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fixed reindex flyout test and changed warning callout from danger color to warning color
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fixed the correct status to show warnings
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fixed i18n strings
* [Upgrade Assistant] Moved reindex with warnings logic into a function
* [Upgrade Assistant] Updated reindex flyout copy
* [Upgrade Assistant] Also added a trailing period to the reindex step 3
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fixed i18n strings and step 3 wording
* [Upgrade Assistant] Added docs changes
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Upgrade Assistant] Hide features that don't need to be migrated from flyout (#115535)
* Filter out system indices that dont require migration on server side
* Rename to attrs to migration
* Update flyout snapshot.
* Refine Upgrade Assistant copy. (#115472)
* Remove unused file
* Fix kibanaVersion dep
* Updated config.ts to fix UA test
UA functional API integration test to check cloud backup status creates a snapshot repo, which fails to be created with my changes to config.ts `'path.repo=/tmp/repo,/tmp/repo_1,/tmp/repo_2,'`. Adding `/tmp/cloud-snapshots/'` to the config fixes the test.
* Address CR changes
* Add missing error handler for system indices migration (#116088)
* Fix broken tests
* Fix test
* Skip tests
* Fix linter errors and import
* [Upgrade Assistant] Fix typo in retrieval of cluster settings (#116335)
* Fix typos
* Fix typo also in server tests
* Make sure log collection remains enabled throughout the test
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix type errors
* Fix integration test types
* Fix accessibility test type errors
* Fix linter errors in shared_imports
* Fix functional test types
Co-authored-by: CJ Cenizal <cj@cenizal.com>
Co-authored-by: Alison Goryachev <alison.goryachev@elastic.co>
Co-authored-by: Kibana Machine <42973632+kibanamachine@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Yulia Čech <6585477+yuliacech@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: James Rodewig <40268737+jrodewig@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Dmitry Borodyansky <dborodyansky@gmail.com>
* First iteration of batch reindex docs
Tested with docs generator repo
* Add top level bullet points and remove cruft
* Address PR feedback
Also move the experimental marker to similar position (before
description) on existing endpoint docs for UA.
* Clean up
* Dashboard export API
* More changes
* role-management and saved-objects
* Clean up
* Final clean up
* Clean up
* Moved labels to appropriate places
* Fixed rogue commits
