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authorReuben Pereira <rpereira@gitlab.com>2019-06-10 13:45:15 +0000
committerClement Ho <clemmakesapps@gmail.com>2019-06-10 13:45:15 +0000
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Move external dashboard docs
- To user/project/operations - And cross-link in ci/environments
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@@ -617,6 +617,10 @@ versions of the app, all without leaving GitLab.
![Monitoring dashboard](img/environments_monitoring.png)
+#### Linking to external dashboard
+
+Add a [button to the Monitoring dashboard](../user/project/operations/linking_to_an_external_dashboard.md) linking directly to your existing external dashboards.
+
### Web terminals
> Web terminals were added in GitLab 8.15 and are only available to project Maintainers and Owners.
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@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ your applications:
- Discover and view errors generated by your applications with [Error Tracking](error_tracking.md).
- Create, toggle, and remove [Feature Flags](feature_flags.md). **[PREMIUM]**
- [Trace](tracing.md) the performance and health of a deployed application. **[ULTIMATE]**
+- Add a [button to the Monitoring dashboard](linking_to_an_external_dashboard.md) linking directly to your existing external dashboards.
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+# Linking to an external dashboard
+
+> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57171) in GitLab 12.0.
+
+You can add a button to the Monitoring dashboard linking directly to your existing external dashboards.
+
+## Enabling the external dashboard link
+
+1. Go to **Settings > Operations** and scroll to the section titled **External dashboard**.
+
+1. Fill in the URL to your external dashboard and click **Save changes**.
+
+ ![External Dashboard Settings](img/external_dashboard_settings.png)
+
+1. There should now be a button on your
+ [Monitoring dashboard](../../../ci/environments.md#monitoring-environments) which
+ will open the URL you entered in the above step.
+
+ ![External Dashboard Link](img/external_dashboard_link.png)