Summary

Kibana supports sharing dashboards today, but there is no way to share a single panel. There are many permutations of the general need in our customer requests. The goal of this feature is to allow sharing of a dashboard panel to multiple destinations in multiple formats.

User stories

Some example use cases of this feature are:

• As a user, I can share a PNG image to my clipboard, so I can paste it into other applications.
• As a user, I can share a URL to my clipboard, so I can send users to a fullscreen panel that reflects its state at the time it was shared.
• As a user, I can share a URL to my clipboard, so I can send users to a fullscreen panel that reflects current data.
• As a user, I can share directly to slack, so that Slack shows a nice preview instead of a bare URL.
• As a user, I can save a panel as a PDF so it can be suitable for printing or a larger display.

Tasks

Panel sharing functionality should live in X-Pack (Gold).

• New context menu design
• Share icon in embeddable panels
• Spike: generate PNG from dashboard Lens panels
• Dashboard panel landing page
• Sharing actions
  • Copy link
  • Send to Slack
  • Send to e-mail
  • Copy as .png
  • Download as .pdf
• Toggle in Advanced Settings.

Ideas

• Create a crawlable public .html page which Slack (or other services) can crawl to show a preview image inside a Slack channel.
• Copy as structured data, where we use clipboard APIs to copy data in various formats.
  • Visualizations can copy .png images into clipboard, and CSV text data as backup.
  • Table panels can copy HTML tables into the clipboard.

Designs

Figma mocks

Parent issue: #92603