# Share a Read-only Visualization having a cached result

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/share-a-read-only-visualization-having-a-cached-result/102755
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 4, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/share-a-read-only-visualization-having-a-cached-result/102755 "2017-10-04T20:22:38Z")
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### Author: ![objectstrategy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c5a1d2/32.png) [@objectstrategy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/objectstrategy)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/share-a-read-only-visualization-having-a-cached-result/102755/1 "2017-10-04T20:22:38Z")

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Sharing a visualization works great. But if shared links become popular I can see large number of users pull up the visualization - too many and my system is impacted.

I have tried screen shots of the visualization that often works okay but loose the UI features including tooltips, highlighting a metric and opening the data table drawer, downloading raw data, etc.

I would like to share a "cached" visualization where kibana stores the search result and configures the UI in a read only mode.

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### Author: ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/share-a-read-only-visualization-having-a-cached-result/102755/2 "2017-10-04T22:43:10Z")

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There isn't a way to do this currently. Could you add an enhancement request on GitHub? Thanks!

> **[elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana)**
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> kibana - :bar\_chart: Kibana analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch

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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: [November 1, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/share-a-read-only-visualization-having-a-cached-result/102755/3 "2017-11-01T22:43:26Z")

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