Graphite

Read only dashboard instance?

Asked by Asher Feldman

I'm interested in deploying a public dashboard instance based around viewing saved dashboards, and possibly creating ad-hoc ones, but without the ability to save or or delete anything. Has anyone done this? I was thinking about about just adding @login_required where appropriate and creating a stripped down view intended for anonymous users but was wondering if there's a better way, or if similar functionality is already in development.

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Best chrismd (chrismd) said : 		#1

Graphite was designed for convenience not security, there are numerous ways to denial-of-service Graphite if that is one's intent. I highly recommend against directly exposing Graphite to untrusted users. A safe alternative if you want to expose dashboards publicly would be to use a cronjob to wget the images from graphite and save them as static content that gets used by some separate html dashboard served by a public facing web server.

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Asher Feldman (afeldman-x) said : 		#2

Thanks chrismd, that solved my question.