Open Source Project Branching Model

Introduction This document describes how SonarK works with the upstream project it is forked from, which is Kibana. This is in an attempt to make the upgrading process more manageable by a human being. Problems With “Bulk Upgrade” Up until the writing of this document, upgrades have been performed once every few months when we … Read more

Value overflows with <input type=”number”/>

Problem We recently hit a problem where users pasting large numbers in a <input type=”number”/> (part of a query input box), causing a wrong result. After further investigation, we realized that numbers (integer or floating points) exceeding 2^51 causes problems in Firefox, and probably just a bigger precision would cause problems in chrome. At the … Read more

Deploying Kibana with Pre-Installed Plugins

Kibana is an open source project. Modifying and developing over it is therfore a natural thing to do. Organizations might want to do it to fit their various specific needs. Although, a developer could dive right in the src/ directory and fiddle with the code immediately, a more proper way of customizing Kibana is through a … Read more