Changing dashboard permissions

To change the permissions of a dashboard from the dashboard, you can click on the three dots (...) button to the right of the export button, then select Edit Permissions from the dropdown. Alternatively, you can click on the Dashboards menu, as outlined in step 3 of this recipe. From the Dashboards screen, you will see the Website Monitoring dashboard that you just created. Under the Actions column, you will see a clickable link labeled Edit; click on this link. A drop-down panel will appear; click on the item labeled Edit Permissions. The resulting pop-up window that appears will allow you to define permissions on a role-by-role basis and limit these permissions to be restricted to within the working application or globally for all applications.

When creating dashboards through the GUI in Splunk, the default permission level should be private. However, in this recipe, you selected the Shared in App permissions button when creating the dashboard. This ensures that the new dashboard is automatically shared with everyone who has permissions to the application and saves you from having to edit permissions after creating it. On the backend, dashboards with application permissions are stored in the respective application directory structure. Dashboards with private permissions are stored in the respective user directory.