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[Security][9.5 & Serverless] Document the new flyout system for alert and event details - #7719

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For 9.5, the new flyout system (EUI session flyout) goes GA in Security Solution, replacing the legacy right/left/preview panel model with a single flyout plus child flyouts that layer on top of it. This rewrites the primary affected page, adds a shared "Details flyouts" reference for the mechanics common to all of these flyouts (to avoid re-documenting the same header/footer/navigation on every page), and updates related pages that referenced the old panel structure or were missing version tags for the new behavior.

Fixes #7607.

All UI details (button labels, icons, which actions open a new flyout vs. a popover, and which behaviors are version-gated) were verified against the Kibana source rather than assumed.

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  • View detection alert details - Full rewrite. Replaces the right/left/preview panel structure with the single flyout + child flyout model (header, footer, and each Overview tab section — About, Investigation, Visualizations, Insights, Response, Notes — now opening its own flyout). Adds a version note for the pre-9.5 legacy layout, documents a new correlation type (Attacks related to this alert), and trims the header/footer explanation in favor of linking to the new shared Details flyouts section.
  • Elastic Security UI - Adds a new Details flyouts section documenting the header toolbar (Share, Back, History), footer (Ask AI Assistant/Add to chat, Take action), and child flyout navigation shared across alert, event, attack, host, user, and other flyouts, so other pages can link here instead of re-describing the same mechanics.
  • View entity details - Replaces stale "expand the flyout" wording (Behavioral anomalies, Graph, Resolution, Insights) with accurate child flyout language, links to the shared Details flyouts section, and adds a missing applies_to tag to the Insights section.
  • Manage discoveries from the Attacks view - Links to the shared Details flyouts section for toolbar and footer controls that weren't previously documented on this page.
  • Write investigation guides - Updates references from the old "Investigation tab" to the Investigation section's flyout, with applies_to tags and legacy notes for the pre-9.5 wording.
  • AI Assistant - Updates the alert flyout's AI entry point from Chat to Ask AI Assistant / Add to chat, tagged to 9.5+ with a legacy note for the old wording.
  • View and analyze risk score data - Updates the Insights → Entities navigation description.
  • Configure advanced settings - Documents the new securitySolution:enableNewFlyout advanced setting, fixes a broken anchor left over from the old page structure, and points the legacy-flyout reference to the new shared Details flyouts section.
  • Add Osquery Response Actions - Updates the stale "Response tab in the left panel" reference to the current Response section, with a legacy note for pre-9.5 behavior.
  • Notes - Points the "add notes to alerts and events" guidance at the alert flyout's Notes section instead of duplicating it, and adds a legacy note for the pre-9.5 "Notes tab" behavior.

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A few screenshots likely still show the old flyout chrome and should be recaptured separately:

  • security-ig-alert-flyout.png, security-ig-alert-flyout-invest-tab.png (investigation guide)
  • security-alerts-flyout-rs.png, security-risk-summary.png (risk score data)
  • security-alerts-flyout-table.png (table settings menu)
  • security-osquery-results-tab.png (Osquery response actions)

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Tool(s) and model(s) used: Cursor (Claude)

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Rewrites the alert details flyout page around the new EUI session flyout (main + tools flyouts, no more right/left/preview panels), and updates related pages that referenced the old panel model. Fixes #7607.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Looks good overall, added a few comments for your consideration.
Thanks!
Edit: I've also pushed a commit (b137dba) that replaces the "expand" wording in two other EA files.

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Overall LGTM. I did leave a few comments for some (to me) unnecessary notes as well as some (again to me) odd content order

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LGTM, thanks!

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