A look at RISON: Kibana's weird URL encoding
If you’ve used the ELK stack, you’ve probably had the joy of trying to share a Kibana URL with someone. If you were naive enough to just copy the link from your browser (rather than creating a shortlink), you’re faced with something that looks like this monstrosity: https://kibana/app/discover#/?_g=(filters:!(),refreshInterval:(pause:!t,value:0),time:(from:now-15m,to:now))&_a=(columns:!(_source),filters:!(),index:ea073d70-8ed6-11ea-88e9-39648e0749be,interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:'machine:%20164%20AND%20service:%20fun-times'),sort:!()) Discover is right Kibana URL, although we may have a bit of trepidation over what we’ve just discovered, because what are those ?...