Send Kibana Dashboard Screenshot as HTML Email

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I have a use case which is to have a watcher check for things to alert and upon alert it will display the details on Kibana and a screenshot of the kibana dashboard will be automatically captured and sent to a user via html email.

In a nutshell the html email will have nice looking charts and diagrams in it and these will be from a predefined Kibana dashboard

Is the above use case possible with Kibana?

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We are working on scheduled PDF reports that will work via integration with Watcher for this exact use case. The email won't include dashboard in HTML, but will attach it as a PDF. Would that work for you?

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It will definitely be great to have PDF reports. My main objective was to have email alerts with rich contents so that information can be represented in a more visual manner.

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Can I know what will be the estimated release date of this feature?

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We are targeting the 5.0 release for this feature, atm. Alpha1 of this release is planned for later in March and GA in mid-summer. This feature may or may not make 5.0-Alpha1, so do read through the announcement blog to see if it gets mentioned. If not, Alpha2 and Beta1 releases coming about 4 weeks apart after Alpha1 will continue to round out the 5.0 release. We'd love for you to try the feature and provide feedback early during the Alpha/Beta phases!

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While you're waiting for the reporting functionality, one thing you might try is generating a link to desired Kibana dashboard with the time range set to the time the watch was triggered at. The URL for the dashboard is fairly simple, for example:

https://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/dashboard?_g=(refreshInterval:(display:Off,pause:!f,value:0),time:(from:'2016-03-09T05:00:00.000Z',mode:absolute,to:'2016-03-09T20:50:58.594Z'))

All you'd need to do is use script/template support in watcher to parameterize the date/time in the url. I haven't done this myself, but it seems doable.