Now that you've created these lovely dashboards, how do you share them with the world (or your boss)? One of the first questions you must consider is the link between your dashboards and your data sources. For the sake of this book, we'll keep the data sources and the dashboards in close proximity, that is, on the same host and the same network. If you wish to share your dashboards, they will need to access your machine and possibly your network. You'll want to give some serious thought to how best to share them. Here, we'll discuss a few strategies and their pros and cons.
Sharing dashboard links
The most straightforward sharing mechanism is to simply give out a URL to your Grafana server that references the dashboard in question. Click the Share dashboard button (the box with an arrow coming out of it) and use the Link tab to create a link. If you want the dashboard to preserve the current view, make sure you enable Current...