Publish dashboards

A published dashboard provides your viewers with quick access to a dashboard by skipping the process of entering credentials. Published dashboards are also a convenient way to display non-sensitive data that does not need authentication. Or, you might want to share your dashboard as a published dashboard to prevent the viewer from changing its contents.

Dashboard viewers who want to access a published dashboard must be on the same Splunk instance as the dashboard.

For Splunk Cloud Platform viewers, the dashboard access link is subject to any IP allow list rules the dashboard admin has specified.

Prerequisites

To publish a dashboard, you must maintain the following prerequisite capabilities:

• schedule_search
• edit_published_dashboards

edit_published_dashboards applies to admins and sc_admins by default.

Check for prerequisite capabilities

You can check if you have the prerequisite capabilities by following these steps:

1. Navigate to the Settings drop-down list.
2. Under Users and Authentication, select Roles.
3. Under the Name column, find the role you want to check.
4. Navigate to the Actions column associated with that role and select the Edit drop-down list.
5. Select View Capabilities. The View Capabilities modal will pop up.
6. In the search bar, filter for schedule_search or edit_published_dashboards.

Publish a dashboard

The following steps describe how to publish a dashboard:

1. In the dashboard's View mode, navigate to the Actions drop-down list.
2. Select Publish dashboard. The Publish dashboard modal will open.
3. In the Data refresh schedule drop-down list, select how frequently you want the dashboard's data to update and set the time of day you want the data to update. The following are options for the frequency of the data refresh:
   1. Every hour
   2. Every day
   3. Every week
   4. Every month
   5. By Cron
4. In the Link expiration drop-down list, select when you want the published dashboard to expire. The following are options for expiration:
   1. 24 hours
   2. 7 days
   3. 30 days
   4. 1 year
   5. Custom time
5. Select Publish dashboard. The Dashboard is published modal will open.
6. Under Published link, copy the URL to share with your dashboard viewers.
7. (Optional) Select View published dashboard to see the published state of your dashboard.
8. Select Publish options. The Publish dashboard modal will open.
9. In the Publish dashboard modal, you can do the following:
   1. Copy the published dashboard's URL for sharing.
   2. Make changes to the refresh schedule.
   3. Delete the published dashboard's URL. The only way to change the URL's link expiration is by selecting Delete published URL and restarting the publishing steps from the beginning.
10. To keep the changes you've made for your published dashboard, select Save.

Delete a published dashboard URL link

You can delete a published dashboard URL link by following these steps:

1. In the dashboard's View mode, navigate to the Actions drop-down list.
2. Select Publish dashboard. The Publish dashboard modal will open.
3. Select Delete published URL. The Delete published URL modal will open.
4. Select Delete.

Limitations

• Publishing a dashboard does not support the events viewer workflow actions.
• Publishing a dashboard does not support events viewer tags.
• Publishing a dashboard does not support linking to a search.
• Publishing a dashboard does not support linking to reports.
• Dashboard searches must be scheduled. You cannot run searches on demand from published dashboard.
• No more than three concurrent searches can be run per dashboard.
• Published dashboards do not support sorting by using the sort icon in table headers.