docs/sources/visualizations/dashboards/assess-dashboard-usage/index.md
Usage insights enables you to have a better understanding of how your Grafana instance is used.
{{< admonition type="note" >}} Available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud. Grafana Cloud insights logs include additional fields with their own dashboards. Read more in the Grafana Cloud documentation. {{< /admonition >}}
The usage insights feature collects a number of aggregated data and stores them in the database:
The aggregated data provides you access to several features:
This feature also generates detailed logs that can be exported to Loki. Refer to Export logs of usage insights.
For every dashboard and data source, you can access usage information.
To see dashboard usage information, click the dashboard insights icon in the toolbar.
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Dashboard insights show the following information:
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If dashboard sharing is enabled, you'll also see a Shared dashboards tab in your analytics.
Data source insights provides information about how a data source has been used in the past 30 days, such as:
To find data source insights:
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When you are signed in and looking at a dashboard, you can know who is looking at the same dashboard as you are via a presence indicator, which displays avatars of users who have recently interacted with the dashboard. The default time frame is 10 minutes. To see the user's name, hover over the user's avatar. The avatars come from Gravatar based on the user's email.
When there are more active users on a dashboard than can fit within the presence indicator, click the +X icon. Doing so opens dashboard insights, which contains more details about recent user activity.
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To change recent to something other than the past 10 minutes, edit the configuration file:
[analytics.views]
# Set age for recent active users to 10 minutes
recent_users_age = 10m
To disable the presence indicator, edit the configuration file as follows:
[analytics.views]
# Disables the presence indicator
recent_users_age = 0
The dashboard won't show any avatars and thus no recent user activity.
In the search view, you can use insights data to help you find most-used, broken, and unused dashboards.
You can sort the dashboards by:
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If you set up your installation to export logs of usage insights, there are two dashboards to help you take advantage of this data.
You can click the previous links to download the respective dashboard JSON, then import into your Grafana installation.