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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Sharing dashboards

Now that you’ve created these lovely dashboards, how do you share them with the world (or just 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 exercise, we’ll keep the data sources and the dashboards in 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 three circle interface icon in the dashboard bar and use the Link tab to create a link. If you want the dashboard to preserve the current view, make sure...

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
Read more about Eric Salituro