Link detectors and dashboard groups to teams in Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗
You can link detectors and dashboard groups to a team to make these resources accessible on the team’s landing page.
To learn more about team landing pages, see Manage team landing pages in Splunk Observability Cloud.
Detectors linked to teams 🔗
When you link detectors to a team, you get the following features:
The team landing page displays lists of active alerts.
On the Alerts page, users can use filters to display only those detectors linked to a specific team.
Note
You can manually add a team as a notification recipient for any detector; you don’t have to link the detector to the team.
Link a detector to a team 🔗
You can only link a detector to a team if you have write permission for the detector. To learn more, see View and manage permissions for detectors.
You can link a detector to a team when you are viewing the Detectors tab on the Alerts page or when you are viewing a specific detector.
To link a detector to a team, follow these steps:
From the Actions menu for the detector, select Links to teams.
From the drop-down list, select the team you want to link to the detector, then click Done.
If the team is not already a notification recipient for the detector, Observability Cloud asks if you want to send notifications to the team. Click Yes to add the team as a recipient to each detector rule. Click No to leave all recipients as is.
Note
Sending alert notifications to a team doesn’t necessarily mean that every team member is notified. The team’s notification policy determines which team members receive notifications. To learn more about configuring team notification policies, see Manage team notifications in Splunk Observability Cloud.
Remove the link between a detector and a team 🔗
To remove a link between a detector and a team, you need to have write permission for the detector. To learn more, see View and manage permissions for detectors.
You can remove the link between a detector and a team when you are viewing the Detectors tab on the Alerts page or when you are viewing a specific detector.
To remove the link between a detector and a team, follow these steps:
From the Actions menu for the detector, select Links to teams.
Click the x to remove a team from the linked teams list, then click Done.
If the team is a notification recipient for the detector, Observability Cloud asks if you want to stop sending notifications to the team. Click Yes to remove the team as a recipient from each detector rule. Select No to leave all recipients as is.
Dashboard groups linked to teams 🔗
When you link a dashboard group to a team, the dashboard group is accessible on the team’s landing page.
To link a dashboard group to a team, you need to have write permission for the dashboard group. To learn more, see Specify who can see and edit your dashboard groups and dashboards.
The following table provides details about which dashboard group types you can link to a team.
Dashboard group type |
Description |
|---|---|
Custom dashboard group |
- You need write permission to link a custom dashboard group to a team.
- To learn more, see Read and write permissions in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
|
Built-in dashboard group |
- You can’t link a built-in dashboard group to a team. However, you can clone built-in dashboards to a custom dashboard group, and link that group to a team.
- To learn more, see Clone a built-in dashboard.
|
User dashboard group |
You can’t link a user dashboard group to a team. |
Link a dashboard group to a team 🔗
You can create a link between a dashboard group and a team from the landing page for the team, or you can create the link from the dashboard group page.
To link a dashboard group to a team from the team landing page, follow these steps:
Access the team landing page. To learn how to access team landing pages, see View a team landing page.
Click Add Dashboard Group.
Select the dashboard group you want to link.
Click OK.
To link a dashboard group to a team from the dashboard group:
Access the dashboard group. To learn how to access dashboard groups, see View dashboards and dashboard groups.
Click the Dashboard group actions menu (⋯) next to the dashboard group name and select Links to Teams.
In the text box, start typing a team name. Observability Cloud auto-completes the team name. If Observability Cloud finds more than one match, it displays a drop-down list.
Select the team you want to link to from the list.
Click Done.
Remove the link between a dashboard group and a team 🔗
To remove a link between a dashboard group and a team, you need to have write permission for the dashboard group. To learn more, see Specify who can see and edit your dashboard groups and dashboards.
To remove the link between a dashboard group and a team, follow these steps:
Access the dashboard group. To learn how to access dashboard groups, see View dashboards and dashboard groups.
Click the Dashboard group actions menu (⋯) next to the dashboard group name and select Links to Teams.
Click the x to remove a linked team.
Click Done.