# Track Visualization and Dashboard Usage

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 13, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714 "2019-06-13T18:06:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![misiakj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@misiakj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misiakj)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714/1 "2019-06-13T18:06:32Z")

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Hi All,

Is there any way to store/track Kibana Dashboard and visualization view counts and who is viewing them?  
The best way I can find so far is manually searching the kibana.log for Dashboard/Visualization gets but it seems like there must be a better way?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714/2 "2019-06-13T23:51:21Z")

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Not an integrated way at this point. The best option would be to use Packetbeat with the http protocol on port 5601.

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**Author:** ![misiakj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@misiakj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misiakj)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714/3 "2019-06-14T19:11:48Z")

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I have this installed and can see general traffic on the port, Is it also be able to break down the data by visualization/dashboard traffic?  
I can't find the field/query needed to pull out queries that go to specific Dashboards/Visualizations.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714/4 "2019-06-14T22:21:12Z")

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You'll need to do that by looking at the URLs manually.

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**Author:** ![misiakj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@misiakj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misiakj)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714/5 "2019-06-14T22:44:22Z")

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From what I can see packetbeat doesn't store the URLs containing Visualization/Dashboard IDs or Names when they are opened.

For example I see some entries like the below, but nothing that lets me track dashboard/visualization hits

```
June 14th 2019,15:42:30.666http://[localhost:5601]:5601/elasticsearch/_msearch
June 14th 2019, 15:42:30.485http://[localhost:5601]:5601/ui/favicons/favicon-16x16.png
June 14th 2019, 15:42:10.176http://[localhost:5601]:5601/elasticsearch/_msearch
June 14th 2019, 15:42:09.925http://[localhost:5601]:5601/ui/favicons/favicon-16x16.png
June 14th 2019, 15:41:11.824http://[localhost:5601]:5601/elasticsearch/_msearch
June 14th 2019, 15:41:11.585http://[localhost:5601]:5601/ui/favicons/favicon-16x16.png
June 14th 2019, 15:41:05.957http://[localhost:5601]:5601/elasticsearch/_msearch
```

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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:** [July 12, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/track-visualization-and-dashboard-usage/185714/6 "2019-07-12T22:51:48Z")

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