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Backports the following commits to 8.x:

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Enhance ES|QL responses to include information about `took` time (search latency), shards, and
clusters against which the query was executed.

The goal of this PR is to begin to provide parity between the metadata displayed for 
cross-cluster searches in _search and ES|QL.

This PR adds the following features:
- add overall `took` time to all ES|QL query responses. And to emphasize: "all" here 
means: async search, sync search, local-only and cross-cluster searches, so it goes
beyond just CCS.
- add `_clusters` metadata to the final response for cross-cluster searches, for both
async and sync search (see example below)
- tracking/reporting counts of skipped shards from the can_match (SearchShards API)
phase of ES|QL processing
- marking clusters as skipped if they cannot be connected to (during the field-caps
phase of processing)

Out of scope for this PR:
- honoring the `skip_unavailable` cluster setting
- showing `_clusters` metadata in the async response **while** the search is still running
- showing any shard failure messages (since any shard search failures in ES|QL are
automatically fatal and _cluster/details is not shown in 4xx/5xx error responses). Note that 
this also means that the `failed` shard count is always 0 in ES|QL `_clusters` section.

Things changed with respect to behavior in `_search`:
- the `timed_out` field in `_clusters/details/mycluster` was removed in the ESQL
response, since ESQL does not support timeouts. It could be added back later
if/when ESQL supports timeouts.
- the `failures` array in `_clusters/details/mycluster/_shards` was removed in the ESQL
response, since any shard failure causes the whole query to fail.

Example output from ES|QL CCS:

```es
POST /_query
{
  "query": "from blogs,remote2:bl*,remote1:blogs|\nkeep authors.first_name,publish_date|\n limit 5"
}
```

```json
{
  "took": 49,
  "columns": [
    {
      "name": "authors.first_name",
      "type": "text"
    },
    {
      "name": "publish_date",
      "type": "date"
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    [
      "Tammy",
      "2009-11-04T04:08:07.000Z"
    ],
    [
      "Theresa",
      "2019-05-10T21:22:32.000Z"
    ],
    [
      "Jason",
      "2021-11-23T00:57:30.000Z"
    ],
    [
      "Craig",
      "2019-12-14T21:24:29.000Z"
    ],
    [
      "Alexandra",
      "2013-02-15T18:13:24.000Z"
    ]
  ],
  "_clusters": {
    "total": 3,
    "successful": 2,
    "running": 0,
    "skipped": 1,
    "partial": 0,
    "failed": 0,
    "details": {
      "(local)": {
        "status": "successful",
        "indices": "blogs",
        "took": 43,
        "_shards": {
          "total": 13,
          "successful": 13,
          "skipped": 0,
          "failed": 0
        }
      },
      "remote2": {
        "status": "skipped",  // remote2 was offline when this query was run
        "indices": "remote2:bl*",
        "took": 0,
        "_shards": {
          "total": 0,
          "successful": 0,
          "skipped": 0,
          "failed": 0
        }
      },
      "remote1": {
        "status": "successful",
        "indices": "remote1:blogs",
        "took": 47,
        "_shards": {
          "total": 13,
          "successful": 13,
          "skipped": 0,
          "failed": 0
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Fixes elastic#112402 and elastic#110935
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quux00 commented Sep 30, 2024

buildkite test this

@elasticsearchmachine elasticsearchmachine merged commit 7d02f5c into elastic:8.x Sep 30, 2024
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