Grafana - exposing a single dashboard anonymously via a URL

Monitoring and Observability Grafana
#1

Is there a current / still correct in 2022 way to expose a single dashboard anonymously via a URL

#2

The best way I’ve done this is to use auth.proxy, and then route your anonymous users through an nginx host that sets the proxy user

Normal users then still accesses Grafana directly

#3

Bit of a schlep, but it works really well, because now your “anonymous” user is actually still a real user in Grafana, and you can set permissions on this nominated anonymous user

#4

This is an interesting approach, do you have any docs, I’m fronting grafana with nginx anyway so this could be a simple approach

#5

Have a look here:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/setup-grafana/configure-security/configure-authentication/auth-proxy/

So in your nginx proxy, you could have two forwards. For example:

For authentication access:

          proxy_pass [http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/);

          proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        }```
For the "anonymous" user:
```location /anonaccess {
          proxy_pass [http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/);
          proxy_set_header X-WEBAUTH-USER myanonymoususer;
          proxy_set_header Authorization "";
          proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        }```
and in your grafana ini you set X-WEBAUTH-USER =myanonymoususer