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Dashboard Access Policies/Permissions

PedroSantos
Advisor

Hello community,

The issue I'm facing today is that I'm trying to give a specific user read access to a single dashboard (inside the Dashboards app, so not classic) in my environment. This user should only have this permission, and access to nothing else.

However I can't seem to be able to figure out a simple/effective way to do it.

Can anyone give me pointers on how to do this?

Thanks in advance x)

To make an error is human. To spread the error across all servers in an automated way is DevOps.
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KeeganNelson
Dynatrace Advisor
Dynatrace Advisor

Hello PedroSantos. 

Within individual dashboards there is an option to "share" dashboard. There is an opportunity to share access to people and groups that are in your environment with "can view' or "can edit" access. As well as an opportunity to create a link with the same permissions. Please refer to the screenshot below. 

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Hope this helps!



@PedroSantos does it solve your case? 🙂

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@AgataWlodarczyk,

Unfortunately, no. It seems it's not possible. As the use-case seems particularly relevant, I have posted a Product Idea: https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Product-ideas/Hide-Ready-made-dashboards/idi-p/272303

Antonio Sousa

Hello @KeeganNelson ,

Unfortunately, this does not solve my problem. The link or share option, by itself, doesn't grant access to anything.

Case in point, I have a test user with the right "shared" permissions on my dashboard:

PedroSantos_1-1741193316707.png

(The "Can Edit" option doesn't work either)

And this is what the test user sees:

PedroSantos_2-1741193394398.png

Generating a link for access provides the following results:

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Bluntly put, it's not possible to grant access to a user who doesn't have the permission to, for example, see the dashboards app. In my case the user has permissions to see the dashboards app but something is missing.

In order for a user to be able to see the new dashboards app, and then only the dashboard I want them to see, they need actual permissions likely defined by policies.

I tried to tweak with the policies and grant access but with this access, comes the ability to see to a lot of pre-set dashboards:

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I don't want them to be able to see any of this.

So my question evolves to:

What permissions and/or policies do I need to define in order to ensure a user only has access to a single dashboard?

I understand that at the very least they'll need to have access to the dashboards app so I added this:

ALLOW app-engine:apps:run WHERE shared:app-id = "dynatrace.dashboards";

Given there isn't an "easy" way to do this, what else do I need to add?

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moin_DT1
Helper

@PedroSantos Also you can try using custom Policies and Boundaries, where you can defined exactly what you want to share and to whom you want to share:

https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/iam

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