[Issue]: cannot find Search: Behavioral Analytics

[markniemeijer]

Type of issue

None

What documentation page is affected

https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/

What happened?

Hi team, the new documentation structure is really really bad. Maybe I am not open to change, but in this case it is really terrible.
All the things I used to find in 2 or 3 minutes now takes me 10 minutes or more.

In this case: Behavorial Analytics. I just clicked for almost 10 minutes and cannot find it. I thought I just keep clicking to get used to the new structure.

But no, it is so counter intuitive.

Please revert back to the old structure or make the new one more intuitive.

Searching does not help either, it just refers to the API. But I want to know what I have to instrument in my application.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Mark

Additional info

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[markniemeijer]

okay, I searched the same in the old elastic.co/guide.

In 3 clicks I was here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.18/behavioral-analytics-overview.html

• navigate to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/
• click "Elasticsearch"
• click "Search your data"
• click "Search analytics"

How hard can it be?

Sorry that I sound irritated, but that is because I am.

Cheers,
Mark

[florent-leborgne]

Hi @markniemeijer. Thanks for raising this issue and for sharing your concerns.

This looks like a miss in our release notes: The behavioral analytics feature was removed from the UI in 9.0 and its associated APIs were deprecated, while only the API deprecation was called out in the release notes. Because of these changes, these docs didn't make it into the new 9.0 documentation site. I'll make sure it's correctly surfaced in the release notes.

On a side note, we're actively working on improving the search.
We also acknowledge that this new structure is a big change, especially for anyone who got used to the way it was before, and we'd love to hear about other examples where you struggled to find a page. If I may ask, could you share a bit more on what made those easy to find previously in your opinion, and what makes it harder now?

Cheers

[florent-leborgne]

I will close this issue as the specific Behavioral Analytics case was treated on the docs side.

Nonetheless, please feel free to add more comments about the broader findability problems that you also discussed, and I will create other issues based on that (or refer to existing ones we have in the works).

Thank you!