Dashboard auto refresh - best practice

[InderSingh1]

Hi,

Does a dashboard with a setting to refresh every 2 mins mean, there will be a new search launched every 2 mins?

Isn't it a resource consumption, especially when all the users keep on setting their dashboards to refresh without any legit reason?

How can I search all the dashboards which are using this setting so that I can chase those users to remove the refresh setting if not really needed?

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

It depends on the dashboard, but most will launch new searches every interval.  An exception is for dashboard panels that use the loadjob command.  Yes, it's a resource consumption and (IMO) auto-refresh dashboards should be discouraged.

Try this search for locating dashboards that use auto-refresh:

| rest /servicesNS/-/-/data/ui/views 
| search eai:data="*<refresh>*" 
| rex field=eai:data max_match=0 "\s<refresh>(?<refresh>\w+)" 
| eval refresh=mvdedup(refresh) 
| table title author eai:acl.app eai:acl.owner refresh description