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    Managed Service for Grafana:Generate a link to share a Grafana dashboard

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    Managed Service for Grafana:Generate a link to share a Grafana dashboard

    Last Updated:Jun 25, 2026

    This topic describes how to generate a link for a Grafana dashboard that allows users to view the dashboard without the need to log on to Grafana.

    Important

    • After enabling logon-free (anonymous) access, your dashboard will be in an open state. Please confirm whether the open-state dashboard contains any confidential data to prevent data leakage.

    • To restrict access to the Grafana link to specific clients, your corporate intranet, or a VPC, configure a whitelist on the Whitelists and Security Groups page to limit access by source IP address.

    Step 1: Log on to Grafana

    1. Log on to the Managed Service for Grafana console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Workspace Management.

    2. On the Workspace Management page, find the workspace that you want to manage and click the URL in the URL column to go to Grafana.

      Note

      You can log on to Grafana with the administrator account of Grafana and the password that you configured when you created the workspace. You can also click Sign in with Alibaba Cloud to log on to Grafana with the current Alibaba Cloud account.

    Step 2: (Optional) Create a Grafana organization

    Sharing dashboards that can be viewed without logon requires opening the Grafana organization where the dashboard resides, which will make all dashboards under that organization publicly accessible. For the security of your data, we recommend that you create a new organization specifically for sharing dashboards.

    Grafana 9.0.x

    Important

    • Admin permissions do not include the ability to create organizations; only the Admin account has the permission to create organizations. If you log on to Grafana with the Admin account, you can see the 盾牌图标 icon in the left-side navigation pane of Grafana.

    • You set the password for the admin account when you create the workspace. You can reset this password on the Account Management page in the Managed Service for Grafana console.

    1. In the left-side navigation pane of Grafana, choose 盾牌图标 > Orgs.

    2. On the Orgs page, click +New org.

    3. On the New Organization page, enter an organization name and click Create.

    Grafana 10.0.x

    Important

    • Admin permissions do not include the ability to create organizations; only the Admin account has the permission to create organizations.

    • You set the password for the admin account when you create the workspace. You can reset it on the admin page in Grafana, which you can access by navigating to Manage > Users.

    1. On the Grafana homepage, click the image icon.

    2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Manage, and then click Organization.

    3. On the Organizations page, click +New org.

    4. On the New Organization page, enter an organization name and click Create.

    Step 3: Enable anonymous access for the organization

    1. Log on to the Managed Service for Grafana console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Workspace Management.

    2. On the Workspace Management page, click the ID of the workspace that you want to manage.

    3. In the left-side navigation pane, click Parameter Settings.

    4. On the Parameter Settings page, click Modify Parameters, and then select auth.anonymous.

    5. Modify the following auth.anonymous parameters, and then click Save and Apply.

      Parameter

      Description

      enabled

      Set to true to enable anonymous access.

      org_name

      Enter the name of the organization to which the dashboard you want to share belongs.

      org_role

      You can leave this parameter empty. The default value is viewer, which grants read-only permissions.

      Note

      The org_role parameter can also be set to editor or admin, but granting these permissions to public viewers is not recommended.

    Step 4: (Optional) Create a dashboard

    Create the dashboard that you want to share in your organization.

    1. Check whether the current organization is used to share the dashboard.

      Grafana 9.0.x

      Hover over your user avatar in the lower-left corner of the Grafana page to check the current organization. If you are in the wrong organization, click Switch organization and select the correct organization in the Switch Organization dialog box.

      Grafana 10.0.x

      In the upper-left corner of the Grafana page, check whether the current organization is used to share dashboards. If not, select the organization from the drop-down list.

    2. Add a data source.

    3. Create a dashboard. For more information, see the official Grafana documentation.

    Step 5: Obtain the sharable link of the dashboard

    Grafana 9.0.x

    1. In the left-side navigation pane of Grafana, choose image > Browse, and then select the dashboard directory.

    2. Open the target dashboard. At the top of the dashboard, click the Share icon (分享图标) and go to the Link tab.

      Enable the Lock time range toggle to fix the time range. Then, click Copy next to the Link URL to get the link.

    3. Log off from the current Grafana account, use a browser to access the link obtained in the previous step, and then check whether the link is valid.

    4. (Optional) Set a network whitelist.

      To restrict access to the Grafana link to specific clients, your corporate intranet, or a VPC, configure a whitelist on the Whitelists and Security Groups page to limit access by source IP address. For more information, see Configure a public IP address whitelist.

    Grafana 10.0.x

    1. On the Grafana homepage, click the image icon.

    2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Dashboards.

    3. On the Dashboards page, select the dashboard directory.

    4. Open the target dashboard. At the top of the dashboard, click the Share icon (分享图标) and go to the Link tab.

      Configure options such as Lock time range, Theme, and Shorten URL as needed. The URL is generated in the Link URL field. Click Copy to copy the link.

    5. Log off from the current Grafana account, use a browser to access the link obtained in the previous step, and then check whether the link is valid.

    6. (Optional) Set a network whitelist.

      To restrict access to the Grafana link to specific clients, your corporate intranet, or a VPC, configure a whitelist on the Whitelists and Security Groups page to limit access by source IP address. For more information, see Configure a public IP address whitelist.