Dashboard Actions Menu
The Actions menu, located in the top-right corner of a dashboard, provides quick access to configuration options, variables, JSON and PDF export, and deletion tools.
Basic Settings
Update core properties of the dashboard:
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Title — Display name shown in the dashboard list and header.
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Description — Short text describing the dashboard’s purpose or content focus.
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Folder — Assign the dashboard to a folder for organization and RBAC control.
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Tags — Add searchable labels for easier discovery.
View Metadata
At the bottom of the settings dialog, you can view:
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Created At / Updated At — Date and time stamps.
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Created By / Updated By — User details, if available.
Save or Cancel Changes
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Click Save dashboard to confirm changes.
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Click Cancel to close without saving.
Dashboard JSON Diff View
Use the JSON Diff tab in the Save Dashboard dialog to view changes made to the dashboard configuration before saving.
Purpose
The diff view shows what has changed between the current and saved versions of the dashboard. This includes edits to:
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Panel settings
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Variable definitions
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Visualization properties
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Layout metadata
How It Works
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Removed lines are shown in red with a minus (
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Added lines are shown in green with a plus (
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Collapsed blocks show how many lines are hidden — click Expand to view them
Configure Dashboard Variables
Dashboard variables act as placeholders in panel queries. They allow dashboards to adapt based on user selections—such as cluster, namespace, environment, or service—without changing the underlying queries.
Export Dashboard JSON
Download the complete .json definition for:
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Backup purposes.
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Migration to another Kloudfuse instance.
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Manual editing outside the UI.
Copy Dashboard JSON
Copy the dashboard’s JSON to your clipboard for quick sharing in chat, version control, or support requests.
Download Dashboard PDF
Save a snapshot of the dashboard as a PDF to attach to incident reports, share with people who don’t have Kloudfuse access, or keep as a record.
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Set the time range and variable values that you want the PDF to show.
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Expand any collapsed rows whose panels you want to include.
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Open the Actions menu and click Download PDF.
On read-only dashboards without an Actions menu, such as Control Plane, click the download icon (Download dashboard as PDF) in the dashboard header instead.
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Keep the browser tab in the foreground until the download starts.
The Generating PDF dialog shows progress while Kloudfuse loads panel data, captures each panel, and builds the file. Capture pauses while the tab is in the background. Click Cancel to stop.
The browser saves the file as the lowercased dashboard title with each character other than a letter or digit replaced by an underscore, followed by the date. For example, a dashboard titled Service Overview downloads as service_overview_2026-10-20.pdf.
PDF Contents
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A header with the dashboard title, the time range, the current variable values, and the time the PDF was generated.
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Every panel on the dashboard, including panels scrolled out of view, in the same grid positions as on screen.
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A4 landscape pages. Panels that don’t fit on a page continue on the next one.
Limitations
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Panels are captured as images, so text in the PDF isn’t selectable or searchable.
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Each panel shows only what fits within its height on the dashboard. Table or log rows that you would scroll to see are cut off.
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Panels in collapsed rows are left out.
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Kloudfuse waits up to 30 seconds for panel data to load. Panels still loading after that are captured as they are.