# How to Access Data About Dashboard Activity

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-data-about-dashboard-activity/385308
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** dashboard
**Created:** [March 2, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-data-about-dashboard-activity/385308 "2026-03-02T17:48:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![ArielC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arielc/32/141229_2.png) [@ArielC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ArielC)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-data-about-dashboard-activity/385308/1 "2026-03-02T17:48:49Z")

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The dashboard menu now displays dashboard activity, under actions:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/8/b866f4a87720393e461f38f6ee509a2544a56e19.png)

How can I access this data to make other visualizations?  
For example, I would like to make a table showing how many views each dashboard has had in the last time period.

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### Author: ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-data-about-dashboard-activity/385308/2 "2026-03-02T19:47:15Z")

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I believe this information is stored in the Kibana internal index which is something like `.kibana_usage_counters`. Keep in mind though that this index is internal and not documented. You may have to explore own your own.

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### Author: ![ArielC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arielc/32/141229_2.png) [@ArielC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ArielC)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2026, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-data-about-dashboard-activity/385308/3 "2026-03-02T20:14:17Z")

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> [@nickpeihl](#):
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> .kibana\_usage\_counters

I have poked around my indices and used different index patterns in ES|QL to find this data but it appears to be hidden (I am superuser in my space).

Curiously, the AI Assistant was able to generate a list of dashboards with their respective view counts with the following query:

```auto
FROM .kibana*
| WHERE url.url LIKE "*dashboards*" AND url.accessCount IS NOT NULL
| STATS total_views = SUM(url.accessCount), last_accessed = MAX(url.accessDate) BY url.url
| SORT total_views DESC

```

But I am only able to see the results in the AI Assistant UI.  
If I paste the same query into Discover I get no results.

The data is juuust out of reach.

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### Author: ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-data-about-dashboard-activity/385308/4 "2026-03-03T03:26:53Z")

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Hello @ArielC

I was able to execute below query & get output :

Index name is : .kibana\_usage\_counters\_\*

```auto
FROM .kibana_usage_counters_*
| WHERE `usage-counter`.domainId == "dashboard"
  AND `usage-counter`.counterType == "viewed"
| STATS total_views = SUM(`usage-counter`.count)
  BY `usage-counter`.counterName
| SORT total_views DESC

```

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/6/560983006b36433c5d3c29c30de1c2ee2b12344c.png)

But yes in this table we see the ID instead of the Dashboard name for which we may need to use JOIN or have a list of dashboard map to ID.

Thanks!!

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### Author: ![ArielC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arielc/32/141229_2.png) [@ArielC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ArielC)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-data-about-dashboard-activity/385308/5 "2026-03-03T17:05:33Z")

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This is it, thank you!