Document top 10 urgent issues requiring attention in repository

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Analyzed 1000+ open issues in the repository to identify the top 10 requiring urgent attention based on community engagement (reactions, comments), priority labels, age, and impact.

Key Findings

Created /tmp/top_10_urgent_issues.md documenting:

• Critical missing features: Nested field visualization support (Nested field support in visualizations #657, 42👍), per-panel time ranges (Dashboards: lock visualization to a specific date range #1242, 23👍), dashboard drilldown ([UX Design] Drilldown functionality for dashboards #1308, 15👍)
• UX regressions: Missing autocomplete (Viz & Discovery Page Autocomplete #1176, 16👍), Discover 2.0 column auto-resize bug ([BUG] Discover 2.0 - Auto re-sizing of columns happens inappropriately (and frequently) when using saved queries #5524, 8👍, 37 comments)
• Blocking issues: Authentication failures ([BUG] login failed: Invalid username or password, please try again #1611, 13👍, 36 comments)
• Long-standing requests: Index pattern auto-refresh (Index Patterns Refresh field list automatically update for new fields #913, 36👍, open 4+ years)

Analysis Methodology

Queried GitHub API across multiple dimensions:

• Issues sorted by reactions (community priority signal)
• Issues with high priority, p0, blocker labels
• Bug reports with high comment activity (>20)
• Enhancement requests with sustained engagement

Each issue includes impact assessment, reaction counts, comment activity, and prioritization recommendations.

Original prompt

find the top 10 issues in the repo that need urgent attention

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