Different user types

Hi, please take a look at Dashboard-only mode: https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-dashboard-only-mode

With this, an admin user will be able to set up all the dashboards, and enable logged-in users to only see them; but not make any changes that persist in the .kibana index.

If you don't want users to have to log in first, you could look into establishing a special link for the users that has traffic first go through a reverse proxy that decorates the request with authentication headers, automatically logging in the visitors as dashboard-only visitors. See: Auto-authenticating to iframe-embedded Kibana dashboard

Please be aware that even in dashboard-only mode, the users still could use Kibana to create expensive queries to Elasticsearch, so use caution if you are planning on hosting Kibana publicly to the Internet.