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In Splunk Dashboard examples, how do I disable a report that is embedded?

manirao
Explorer

I am trying to disable an alert. When I try to disable, I'm getting the following error/warn message: "Cannot edit report that is embedded"

Please help me in this
Thanks in advance.

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burwell
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Embedded reports are a real pain to deal with.

The trick is that you need to be on the Reports page.

The settings -> searches, reports and alerts page does NOT allow you to embed.

1) So go to http:/yourserver/en-US/app/search/reports
2) find the report
3) Pull down Edit -> Edit Description, Edit Permissions... choose Disabled Embedding
4) You will be asked to confirm if you want to stop embedding

I usually edit my savedsearches and reports with the standard Settings -> searches, reports and Alerts. When you go that way you cannot do the embedding.

Here's the doc on embedded reports:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.0/Report/Embedscheduledreports#Disable_report_embed...

manirao
Explorer

Hi Burwell,
Thanks for your response.

I am trying to delete the alert. When I hit disable button, getting this Error (Cannot edit report that is Embedded)

Please help me on this.
Thanks in advance.

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burwell
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi.. so

  1. disable embedding first
  2. Then disable or delete

Follow the steps for finding the menu to disable embedding first.

It's really clunky and non intuitive.

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