Add Query activity documentation for 9.4 by florent-leborgne · Pull Request #5739 · elastic/docs-content

florent-leborgne · 2026-04-01T08:14:01Z

Summary

Adds documentation for the new Query activity page in Kibana, a new feature shipping in 9.4 that provides real-time visibility and control over queries currently running in an Elasticsearch cluster.

New page: deploy-manage/monitor/query-activity.md — covers prerequisites, accessing the page, viewing and filtering running queries, inspecting query details in the flyout, canceling queries, and configuring the minimum running time threshold
TOC update: added under deploy-manage/monitor alongside cluster health and task manager monitoring
Cross-link: added a tip in the query tracing troubleshooting page pointing to the new Query activity page

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Preview the page at deploy-manage/monitor/query-activity and verify rendering
Verify the cross-link from the tracing troubleshooting page resolves correctly
Replace temporary screenshots with final ones before merging
Coordinate merge timing with the Kibana feature PR

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consulthys

Great start! A few comments below

consulthys · 2026-04-01T08:23:20Z

+:   The unique identifier for the {{es}} task. Select the task ID to open the [query details flyout](#inspect-query-details).
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+**Query type**
+:   The query language used: ES|QL, DSL, EQL, SQL, MSearch, Async search, or Other.


Only ES|QL, DSL, EQL, SQL

lmk when this is confirmed, i'll adjust

Yes, let's adjust this

Adds documentation for the new Query activity page in Kibana (Stack Management → Cluster performance → Query activity), which provides real-time visibility into running queries and the ability to cancel them. - New page: deploy-manage/monitor/query-activity.md - TOC entry under deploy-manage/monitor - Cross-link from the query tracing troubleshooting page - Temporary screenshots (to be replaced before GA) Closes #5451 Made-with: Cursor

- Fix setting name: query_activity:minRunningTime (not running_queries:) - Add serverless: unavailable to page-level applies_to Made-with: Cursor

- Fix Source column/flyout: text only, not a link - Fix query type filter: dynamic options based on current data - Fix Source description: extracted from X-Opaque-Id set by Kibana - Fix Vale ellipsis warning - Add cross-links between Query activity and background search pages Made-with: Cursor

- Opening now explains the problem Query activity solves - Note that this is real-time only, with links to slow logs and AutoOps - Clarify relationship between Trace ID, Source, and Opaque ID Made-with: Cursor

- Trace ID: describe actual behavior (Discover link with 10min range) - Opaque ID: remove editorial framing, keep factual relationship to Source Made-with: Cursor

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wajihaparvez

Looks great! ⭐️

- Remove pain-point opening sentence (rayafratkina) - Link "required privileges" to prerequisites section (wajihaparvez) - Move flyout intro sentence after screenshot (wajihaparvez) - "including" → "such as" in troubleshoot tip (wajihaparvez) Made-with: Cursor

shainaraskas · 2026-04-01T16:47:15Z

can you introduce this in the parent monitoring page too?

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shainaraskas · 2026-04-02T18:44:41Z


 To learn more about the health and performance tools in {{ecloud}}, refer to [](/deploy-manage/monitor/cloud-health-perf.md).

+## Query activity


fyi @consulthys in your PR, we should reframe this so we can see that there is one util for current query activity and one for historic activity (under one heading). let me know if you need a hand there

@shainaraskas since this feature has been shipped today to Serverless but query logs will not be available to Serverless, we still have time to update that part before Stack 9.4 gets released, but we need to merge this PR so the docs are available for Serverless.

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consulthys

LGTM thanks for the quick turn around and great work!!

ES|QL, DSL, EQL, and SQL are query languages; MSearch and Async search are request types. Remove "Other" which is unreachable in practice due to the isIncludedTask filter logic in the Kibana plugin. Addresses consulthys review feedback. Made-with: Cursor

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Restructure ES|QL task management docs to cover all query types #5741

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- Opening now explains the problem Query activity solves - Note that this is real-time only, with links to slow logs and AutoOps - Clarify relationship between Trace ID, Source, and Opaque ID Made-with: Cursor

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Query Activity UI elastic/kibana#253216

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Standardize X-Opaque-Id header casing across docs

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		To learn more about the health and performance tools in {{ecloud}}, refer to [](/deploy-manage/monitor/cloud-health-perf.md).

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