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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions docs/dashboards/share-dashboard-outside-org.md
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Dashboards often contain sensitive information, so you usually share them only with people within your organization. But sometimes you may want to allow people outside your organization to view a dashboard without logging in. For example, if your dashboard is displayed on a monitor in your operations center or if you want to send an external person a link to a dashboard that reveals a critical problem.

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Sharing outside an organization is always view-only and need auto-refresh enabled. Also, if this is the first time that auto-refresh is being enabled, it may take some time to backfill the data depending on your queries and timeranges. See [About Dashboards](about.md).
Sharing outside an organization is always view-only.
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You can share a dashboard with all external users (“the world”), or with a selected set of external users that you specify in the service allowlist. 
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## Restrictions and limitations for external sharing 

* Sharing outside an organization is always view-only and you must enable auto-refresh. When enabling auto-refresh for the first time, it may take some time to backfill the data, depending on your queries and time ranges. See [About Dashboards](about.md).
* Sharing outside an organization is always view-only.
* Panels that are incompatible with auto-refresh will only show data for viewers who have a login.
* Panels must use relative time ranges (such as Last 15 Minutes, Last 24 Hours). Absolute time ranges are not currently supported.
* Unauthenticated viewers will see dashboards with auto-refresh enabled as well as default time range and default template variable values applied. To share a dashboard with a different set of template variable values, create a copy of the dashboard and set the time range and variable value as desired.
* Unauthenticated viewers will see dashboards with default time range and default template variable values applied. To share a dashboard with a different set of template variable values, create a copy of the dashboard and set the time range and variable value as desired.
* If **User's data access level** is enabled for a dashboard, you cannot share it outside your organization.
* Spans, Traces, and Service maps panels are not supported in public dashboards.

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