# Dashboard URL filters
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-url-filters/376997
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 10, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-url-filters/376997 "2025-04-10T12:44:15Z")
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### Author:  [@catn0b0t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/catn0b0t)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-url-filters/376997/1 "2025-04-10T12:44:15Z")
Have already read a number of posts (some a few years old) elaborating on the RISON format used in the url filters for dashboard, but none of them were very helpful. Where can I find documentation on how to specify filters in the url pointing to a dashboard?
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### Author:  [@carly.richmond](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carly.richmond)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-url-filters/376997/2 "2025-04-11T09:12:55Z")
Hi @catn0b0t,
Can you give a bit more detail on what you mean by they are not helpful? Are you looking for a specific example using filters?
I've in the past used these resources to generate the filters for time and other fields:
> **[How to embed Kibana dashboards](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-embed-kibana-dashboards)**
>
> Have you ever wanted to embed your favorite Kibana dashboard in a web application? Join Carly Richmond as she shows you how in her latest blog....
> [@Kibana - '?\_g=' and '&\_a=' Parameters in the Dashboards URL String](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-g-and-a-parameters-in-the-dashboards-url-string/264642):
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> I'm struggling to find documentation on this, if I load up a dashboard their appears to be two query parameters we can add: '?\_g=' and '&\_a=' Currently I have a string like this on the end of my Kibana URL: /app/dashboards#/view/Summary?\_g=(filters:!(),refreshInterval:(pause:!t,value:0),time:(from:'2020-12-15T00:00:00.000Z',to:'2021-02-05T04:30:00.000Z'))&\_a=(description:'',filters:!(('$state':(store:appState),meta:(alias:!n,disabled:!f,index:'dataset01\*',key:case,negate:!f,params:(query:0001…
You could also try selecting the options on the dashboard you need and then use tools such as the [Kibana URL parser](https://observablehq.com/@nyurik/kibana-url-parser) to inspect and validate them.
Let me know if there's specific info you need and we can try to find it.