Kibana disable auto refresh option on dashboards

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According to this page

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.x/autorefresh.html

and the last sentence

if auto refresh is not enabled, click Refresh to manually refresh the search results.

It seems like there is a way to disable auto refresh on any dashboard somewhere.

I searched a lot but unfortunately I did not find anything on how to do this.

Reason is our clients open the dashboards, configure them to the minimum refresh rate (every 5 seconds) and leave it open all the time (even over night) which causes a constant load on the server.

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Feel your pain:

configure them to the minimum refresh rate (every 5 seconds) and leave it open all the time (even over night) which causes a constant load on the server.

There is an option to set refreshing disabled by default:

Stack Management => Advanced Settings => Kibana => Advanced Settings => Time filter refresh interval

timepicker:refreshIntervalDefaults

{"value":60000,"pause":true}

It doesn't prevent users to alter a local browser tab setting but it prevents unnecessary refresh calls from those who unaware or forgot to close browser tab.

Setting timepicker:refreshIntervalDefaults in Kibana Console didn't propagate quick in my experience. Even after restarting Elastic + Kibana + refreshing browser. But next day I loaded Kibana it was applied:

user_1731490

Couldn’t find a way to disable the option. It seems they mentioned the "Refresh every" option in that blog. Like, if that "Refresh every" option is disabled, we need to refresh it manually.

I am also searching for an option to disable that for specific Kibana users/roles.

Elasticstack 7.10 with xPack enabled.

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