Sharing Views

Kloudfuse enables you to easily share your searches, queries, and visualizations with team members through shareable URLs. This facilitates collaboration and allows you to quickly communicate findings across your organization.

Short URL Sharing

The Short URL feature generates a compact, shareable link that preserves your current view, including all filters, queries, time ranges, and visualizations. This enables you to share your exact search or analysis with colleagues without requiring them to manually recreate your query parameters.

Using Short URLs

Short URLs can be generated to share Kloudfuse views, filters, and time ranges. Some limitations may be applicable such as not saved parameters on an edit page.

Create a Short URL

To create a short URL for your current view:

  1. Configure your view with the desired filters, queries, and time range.

  2. Click the Short URL button (Short URL button) on the top right of the Kloudfuse interface.

  3. A shareable URL is generated and copied to your clipboard (or displayed in a popup for manual copying on some browsers).

  4. Share the URL with team members via chat, email, etc.

Accessing Shared Views

When a team member opens a shared URL:

  1. They are directed to the Kloudfuse platform.

  2. The view loads with all the original query parameters, filters, and time ranges.

  3. They can explore the data within the context of their own permissions.

  4. They can modify the view or save their own queries based on the shared configuration.

Users must have appropriate permissions to access the data and views shared via short URLs. If a user lacks permission to view certain data, they may see limited or no results when opening a shared URL.

Short URL Expiration

Shared URLs are stored in Grafana and expire after 7 days of inactivity.

If you would like to extend this expiration period, you can do so by editing your custom-values.yaml:

For example, to extend the expiration period to 30 days of inactivity:

grafana:
  grafana.ini:
    short_links:
      expire_time: 30
yaml

expire_time is measured in days, and can be set up to 365.

This will change all short urls created to expire after the specified number of days of inactivity.