Kibana: Read only dashboard

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X-Pack security enabled

With X-Pack security enabled, give specific user with kibana_dashboard_only_user role in Management > Security > Users. In this case user can access dashboard but there is no edit button in dashboard.

X-Pack security is not enabled

If X-Pack security is not enabled, there is another way to make dashboard “read only” :

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PUT .kibana/_settings
{
  "index": {
    "blocks.read_only": true
  }
}

If applied code in Dev tool, Edit button still can be seen in dashboard but user can’t save modified dashboard.