# Monitoring people watching dashboards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-people-watching-dashboards/304499>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 11, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-people-watching-dashboards/304499 "2022-05-11T18:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ldibello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ldibello/32/105568_2.png) [@ldibello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ldibello)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-people-watching-dashboards/304499/1 "2022-05-11T18:59:12Z")

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Hi, in our company we have several users consuming different dashboards, is there a way, plugin, GTM or other solution, that I can watch how many users are watching dashboards?

Hope I was clear...

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**Author:** ![grfneto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grfneto/32/125776_2.png) [@grfneto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grfneto)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-people-watching-dashboards/304499/2 "2022-05-11T19:41:00Z")

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Hi @ldibello

Welcome to the community,

One way you can explore is by collecting the audit logs from Elasticsearch itself, it will get all users who have successfully connected in the stack. By default this audit is not enabled, but you can enable it, in Elasticsearch configuration files:

`xpack.security.audit.logfile.events.include: authentication_success`

after configuring the audit log, you can collect these logs through filebeat and build a dashboard with the information extracted from the logs.

Below is a link with more information:  
[Auditing search queries | Elasticsearch Guide [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.2/auditing-search-queries.html#auditing-search-queries)

Best regards

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-people-watching-dashboards/304499/3 "2022-06-08T19:41:40Z")

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