Access to Dashboards via Magic Link

[KazWolfe]

What type of request is this?

New dashboard feature

Existing card or feature name

None

Describe the enhancement

Currently, in order to place a dashboard on a tablet or similar device, a user account needs to be made for that tablet - or the tablet's IP address needs to be added to a special authorized list. This is still sub-optimal, as (a) there's no guarantee that a tablet will have a consistent IP address (and static IPs are generall falling out of fashion, and (b) it allows busybodies to push buttons and break things.

By allowing a Dashboard to be marked as "embeddable" and accessed with a certain magic URL (and embedded via an iframe), home administrators can control access to dashboards via tablets/kiosks far more effectively without the same rigor.

Security considerations for this are minimized slightly as the intended use of such a magic URL is an already-restricted context: leaking the token is a non-issue if it's impossible to extract the token from the tablet UI.

Use cases

The primary use is to allow embedding dashboards inside <iframe>s or allowing direct navigation to a dashboard URL on a tablet. This keeps things working in a more reliable manner, and allows creation (and management) of consistent user experiences.

Visual examples

No response

Anything else?

See Datadog's embeddable dashboard feature for a high-order case of prior art.