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SDSC Grafana Snapshot is a resource provided to SDSC Cloud users.

• What is Grafana? Don’t worry! SDSC manages Grafana and its contents. You’ll be provided a dashboard (a page of visualizations for monitoring and browsing). But Grafana is an interactive web application that provides charts and graphs when connected to a data source.

• What is a Grafana Snapshot? A snapshot is a shareable interactive dashboard. It is stripped of sensitive data, leaving only visible metrics and legend/panel names. They can be access by anyone with the link.

Usage

The snapshot site requires users to enter their SDSC Cloud credentials.

After logging in, a drop-down bar will be populated with the user’s cloud project. They are to select one project and click the Request button. The page will automatically embed the dashboardsnapshot. This dashboard snapshot will expire after 1 hour.

Using the log-out button will clear all data including the embedded dashboard. Refreshing the page will also remove the embedded dashboard and will require a new request.

Getting a Shareable Link

While the dashboard snapshot is embedded into the website, it may be desired to receive a shareable link. Note this link will also expire after 1 hour of the snapshot creation. This link will only show information for the selected cloud project.

Notes

• Don’t use Google Incognito

• Don’t The Grafana embedded dashboard feature doesn’t work with Google Incognito. So please use non-incognito or incognito in a different browser.

• Please do not click on other Grafana embedded buttons. You These buttons are clickable, but will not prevent any new or useful information. Additionally, you will not be able to return to the created snapshot. You will need to refresh the page and make a new request.

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