[Dashboards] Users may be missing out on "Explore in Discover" because they stay in Edit mode

[alexmarhaba]

Describe the feature:
Some users are unaware of "Explore in Discover" option because in Edit mode, it is hidden under "More options".
We recommend showing "Explore in Discover" in the primary options menu of a visualization when in Edit mode.

More context:
During a user interview with a developer, the user showed how he often explores data in Discover while creating or editing his visualizations in Dashboards by manually copy pasting filters in Discover. He was unaware of the "Explore in Discover" option in the visualization's menu in Dashboards.

Current options menu in edit mode:

Current options menu in view mode:

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-presentation (Team:Presentation)

[Heenawter]

Agreed on bringing the "Explore in Discover" action to the top of the menu in edit mode! I think the question becomes... which action are we specifically talking about here?

Basically, there is more than one "Explore in Discover"-esque action... Here's just three of them, although I believe there is more depending on various settings + which panel type you are looking at.... (Possibly even an observability-specific action? Hmmm...)

Screenshot	Owner
	Visualizations
	Data Discovery (when the exploreDataInChart setting is enabled)
	Data Discovery (specifically only for saved searches) - View mode only

If we only care about Lens panels, bringing this to the top of the menu in edit mode should be pretty straightforward - but I wonder if this would make the duplication / inconsistency on other panel types more apparent? I wonder if, instead, it would be better to unify all of the "Explore in Discover"-esque actions as part of this effort so that the location + behaviour is consistent across all panel types?

This would definitely add some complexity, so... do we think this is worth doing? Or should we just prioritize bringing the Lens-specific "Explore in Discover" action to the top (despite the fact that it would add inconsistency to the panel menu)? Pinging the @elastic/kibana-data-discovery team in particular, since they should own the bulk of these actions.

[andreadelrio]

Please let's align all of these by using the same label Open in Discover with the discoverApp icon.

[davismcphee]

Just a note that it might be a bit trickier than it seems at a glance to align all of these actions since they do different things:

• "Explore in Discover" and "Explore underlying data" navigate the user to Discover with the necessary query, filters, etc. to recreate the view of the data they are currently looking at.
• "Open in Discover" opens the underlying saved search the panel is based on, not carrying over things like Dashboard query, filters, etc.

As @Heenawter mentioned there are probably more actions and each with nuances in their behaviour, so aligning them all probably involves more analysis and decision making beyond just changing labels and icons.