Share an Edge Delta Dashboard

Share Dashboard

Dashboards can be shared with users who don’t have Edge Delta accounts. This enables you to publish a dashboard on a device such as a TV screen, large monitor or NUC display in a common SRE office area without creating an account for that device. You can control the contents of the dashboard by filtering out data, and you can restrict access using a CIDR.

To start sharing a dashboard, click the kebab (⋮) button for the dash and select Sharing Settings.

Prefilter

On the Prefilter tab, you can specify filters to apply to the shared version of a dashboard. For example you may want to limit it to a specific agent or namespace. This may be helpful to reduce test data noise for a team dedicated to a particular system. As you select filters in the Filters pane, the Prefilter query is populated for you.

You must click Next to save your prefilters.

Security Settings

On the Security Settings tab you specify how long to make the dashboard available for. It can be shared indefinitely by specifying Forever (default), or up to a certain date.

You can optionally specify a list of allowed CIDRs. If a CIDR is set, devices whose public IP addresses are not in that IP range can’t access the dashboard.

You must click Next to save your selections.

Note: Each of these examples uses IP addresses set aside specifically for documentation by RFC 5737 to avoid any conflict with real internet resources.

To learn how to further limit dashboards to specific devices, see Deploy Private Dashboards.

Share

On the Share tab you can toggle sharing on or off. If you turn it on, it generates the public URL that you can share. It also provides an iframe HTML snippet you can use to embed the dashboard in a web page.

Note: each time you turn off sharing and turn it back on, a new unique URL is created. If you configured NAT for using CIDRs you will need to re-configure it for the new URL, see Deploy Private Dashboards.

To disable sharing on the dashboard, set the toggle to the off position.