--- title: "Share Datadog dashboards securely with anyone outside of your organization" description: "Learn how to grant specific individuals access to your dashboards, and use time selectors and template variables to control the amount of data you’re sharing." author: "Kai Xin Tai, Miranda Kapin" date: 2020-12-22 tags: ["dashboards", "dashboards", "collaboration"] blog_type_id: the-monitor locale: en --- Datadog dashboards provide a unified view of your application, infrastructure, and business data, giving stakeholders the context they need to make decisions. [Sharing dashboards publicly](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/sharing.md#share-1) is useful when you want to make them easily accessible to a large audience. But oftentimes, your dashboards include sensitive information, which is why you need finer-grained controls over the data you share—and who you share it with. Now, you can grant specific individuals access to your dashboards, regardless of whether they have a Datadog account. And instead of exposing your entire dataset, you can use [time selectors](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/screenboards.md#global-time-selector) and [template variables](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/template_variables.md) to curate the exact view you want to make available. For instance, if you're a managed service provider, you can share dashboards that only display the performance of specific endpoints, ensuring that your customers only see their own data. Or, if your company has [multiple Datadog organizations](https://docs.datadoghq.com/account_management/multi_organization.md), you can share a dashboard with a colleague in a different department who does not have access to your organization. ## Choose what to share and who to share it with To share a dashboard you own, click on the **Settings** icon and choose **Generate Public URL** from the dropdown menu. By default, anyone with the public URL will have access to the dashboard. You can also limit access to specific individuals by adding either their [email addresses](#share-a-dashboard-by-email-address) or [their company's domain](#share-a-dashboard-by-domain) to your allowlist. ### Share a dashboard by email address From the sharing modal, select **Only specified people**, enter their email addresses, and click **Invite**. ![In the sharing modal, select Only specified people and invite the individuals you want to share the dashboard with.](https://web-assets.dd-static.net/42588/1776293223-dashboard-sharing-invite-compressed.mp4) For each person you invite, Datadog will email a magic link to the dashboard (valid for one hour). Clicking on a valid link authenticates the individual and grants read-only access to the dashboard for 30 days. ![Invited individuals will receive an email containing a one-time link to the dashboard.](https://web-assets.dd-static.net/42588/1776293227-dashboard-sharing-dashboard-email.png) ### Share a dashboard by domain We’ve also made it easy for you to share your dashboard with a specific group of individuals, such as customers and partners. Instead of entering their email addresses one at a time, you can add their company’s domain (e.g., *@example.com) to your allowlist. When they open a link to the dashboard, they can request access—and Datadog will automatically send them a magic link, as described in the [previous section](#share-a-dashboard-by-email-address). ![Request access to dashboard](https://web-assets.dd-static.net/42588/1776293231-dashboard-sharing-domain-sharing-request-access.png) ### Curate the exact view you want to share You can also control what data these individuals are able to view by clicking **Time & Variable Settings**. By default, dashboards display data from the past hour but you can select a different time frame (e.g., past 30 minutes, past day) and allow viewers to adjust that range as they choose. And, if you have configured template variables, you can select specific tags (e.g., availability zone, service, team) to share only a subset of data. In the example below, we have chosen to display data from our coupon validation service in two availability zones. ![In Time & Variable Settings, you can select the time frame and tags to make available to viewers.](https://web-assets.dd-static.net/42588/1776293236-dashboard-sharing-time-variable-settings.png) At any point, you can update your sharing settings (e.g., revoke the access of certain individuals, adjust the data you're sharing) by navigating to the **Settings** menu and clicking **Configure sharing**. ## Share insights while safeguarding sensitive information You can start [sharing your dashboards](https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/sharing.md) with individuals outside of your organization right away. We've built on our [Dashboards API](https://docs.datadoghq.com/api/v1/dashboards.md) to let you programmatically manage and share all of your public dashboards. Or if you're not yet using Datadog, you can get started with a today.