Share a dashboard publicly

A dashboard goes public in two parts: a public cut in build.py, and a public-dashboard record created through the Grafana API on the home server.

Before you start

• Grafana public dashboards do not resolve template variables. A dashboard with variables gets a cut without them.
• Panels that show log lines, traces, names of private work or private repository details stay out of the cut. claude_code_public and host_public in grafana/build.py show both techniques: dropping panels and aggregating labels away.
• The front door at https://grafana.scoetzee.de passes only /public-dashboards/*, /api/public/* and /public/*, so the API call below runs on the home server.

Steps

1. In grafana/build.py, add a function that returns a copy of the dashboard with an empty variable list, every variable filter replaced (for example $model with .*) and identifying labels aggregated away. Give it a uid that ends in -public.
2. Add the function to the list at the bottom of build.py, run python3 grafana/build.py and commit the JSON.
3. Copy the repository to the home server and run docker compose up -d --build. Grafana provisions the new dashboard in the folder "Agent Observability".
4. On the home server, create the public record with the command below. curl prompts for the admin password, which is GRAFANA_ADMIN_PASSWORD in .env.
5. Read accessToken in the JSON response. The public URL is https://grafana.scoetzee.de/public-dashboards/ followed by that token.
6. From outside the home network, open the URL and confirm the panels load.
7. Add the dashboard to Public dashboards. To frame it on Inside, see Inside portal.

DASH=local-llm-public   # uid of the dashboard to share
curl -u admin -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"isEnabled": true, "share": "public"}' \
  "http://localhost:3000/api/dashboards/uid/$DASH/public-dashboards"

Check the result

Which dashboards are public today, and what each one shows: Public dashboards.