# Link to another dashboard **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 14, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460 "2021-08-14T17:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/1 "2021-08-14T17:53:56Z")
Hi, I have some metrics that show a number of events on my dasboard. I would like to be able to click on the metric and it open up a dashboard where it gives me more information about the data instead of just the number of events shown in the metric. How can I achieve this? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/2 "2021-08-14T23:53:40Z")
Perhaps take a look at Drill downs [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/drilldowns.html#dashboard-drilldowns) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/3 "2021-08-15T01:33:42Z")
@stephenb thanks, I did look at that one however it seems that only certain controls can use that feature! I am using a metric control I will post you a picture of what I mean, and it does not have the option to create a drill down so there must be some other way right? because it is important to transition from a count of events to the events themselves, of course it is possible to do this (would make Kibana practically useless if it didn't do it) so how is it done? ![Screen Shot 2021-08-15 at 11.33.13 am](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/f/7f08a45ec42ab24c08092dceb50f9ee31d391cab.png) I want to click on the above and be taken to a dashboard that lists out each suspicious event. ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/4 "2021-08-15T02:11:54Z")
What version are you on? You can easily recreate that same visualization with Lens which supports drill downs. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/5 "2021-08-15T02:22:49Z")
I am on 7.14 so if I could do that, that would be great. Lens? ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/6 "2021-08-15T02:32:35Z")
Great your in 7.14 Oh and @John_Doe4 welcome to the community Lens, It's the new powerful visualization tool in Kibana > **[Lens | Kibana Guide \[7.14\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/lens.html)** ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/7 "2021-08-15T02:49:24Z")
Thanks, ooooooh that, I think I tried that but it was like stripped down and less powerful than the metric component and so I wasn't able to select the stuff I needed to get the correct metric to show? I'll revisit it and have another crack at it, but the gist I got was that the lens thing was a simplification of the previous controls and not as flexible/powerful. ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/8 "2021-08-15T04:08:31Z")
Can you show the configuration of the metric visualization? If so we can probably help... What stuff exactly could you not select? Not sure I would characterize lens as stripped down or simplification It works a little bit different.... That's not to say that it has every feature And if for some reason lens could not TSVB It's very powerful and has a metric as well. so show us what you want to do and we'll see if we can help. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/9 "2021-09-09T13:01:12Z")
Hi, I apologise for the late reply, got thrown into a COVID lockdown here and it threw me a bit of a curve ball. I am however back and revisiting this project again. I think I have managed to convert to lens metric, however some things I was using previously I can't seem to find! I can't find where I can make the numbers change from green to red like I was in the old metric control, and I can't find where I can set the size of the number (so I'm using size 45 on the old metric). Is it possible to do these on the lens metric? ![Screen Shot 2021-09-09 at 10.58.30 pm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/b/cb0b24da51748ad9253cbc710371e224b2b3988f.png) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/10 "2021-09-09T13:06:38Z")
@stephenb Also, I can't see the option for it to have a drilldown? What am I doing wrong???? I've switched to TSVB Metric now and it is autosizing the number to size 45 and I can do the colors with it, but again there is no option for drilldown with it??? Are you sure it has drilldown from the metric in TSVB? ![Screen Shot 2021-09-09 at 11.05.37 pm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/f/ff9b3d866a1a7656c682f99312f825d3ab6cc13c.png) ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/11 "2021-09-10T13:31:28Z")
HI @John_Doe4 Welcome back. Well it appears that you are not missing anything, currently you can not Create a drill down from a lens or TSVB metric. I've given this feedback to product management. You can create a piece of hyperlink text right as a separate small visualization right above that metric if need be I can show you how to do that. I also let them know that in lens we want the metric to be color-coded for values like TSVB ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/12 "2021-09-11T00:00:11Z")
> I've given this feedback to product management Thanks, yea it baffles me that something like a metric cannot drill down. So in my case, I have a metric that shows me things like the number of Suricata alerts, and then when I click it, i would like to open up a dashboard that has a table view of all the suricata alerts in detail. I would think that is quite a common use case surely? > [@stephenb](#): > > You can create a piece of hyperlink text right as a separate small visualisation right above that metric if need be Thanks but I'm space poor on my dash, I don't think I could make the space for a dedicated label. I might just wait and hope that drill down can come to metric, I can manually switch dashboard for the interim, but it would be nice to click the metric and see the results that power it is all, quite perplexing that what I would imagine is an every day use case is totally absent. ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/13 "2021-09-11T00:30:12Z")
It prompted a pretty extensive internal discussion just so you know. Here is the issue I know it doesn't look like much but behind it there was a lot of discussion > > > URL context menu drilldown should be available in all Dashboard panels. But it i…s not, for example, for Lens metric panel. > > Fix is probably as follows: > > !\[image\](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/82822460/132902092-ec6939f5-6868-4e0b-b1be-7414d1288f69.png) ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/14 "2021-09-11T00:31:11Z")
So before all this we just used to create a little navigation bar at the top with a couple links built right in that could have filters and things like that as part of it. I can show you example if you're interested but if you literally don't have 12 font size to add to a dashboard then it's not really a fit ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/15 "2021-09-11T00:55:17Z")
> [@stephenb](#): > > So before all this we just used to create a little navigation bar at the top with a couple links built right in that could have filters and things like that as part of it. > > I can show you example if you're interested but if you literally don't have 12 font size to add to a dashboard then it's not really a fit Oh yes I could fit a nav bar at the top, i was more concerned with doing a label for each of my metrics because I have a lot of them I'd probably consume 1/5 of my dash with labels if i went that route but certainly a small navigation bar at the top could be something that would work for me as the next best thing from a drill down yea. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/16 "2021-09-11T00:57:13Z")
Ah yea nice, thanks for opening the bug on github. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Doe4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_doe4/32/81145_2.png) [@John\_Doe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Doe4)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/17 "2021-09-11T03:13:05Z")
> [@stephenb](#): > > I can show you example if you're interested Yes please, I tried googling it now but what I saw was for Kibana 4 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-to-another-dashboard/281460/18 "2021-10-09T03:13:36Z")
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