# Discourse Data Explorer
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** official, data-explorer, included-in-core
**Created:** [August 26, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566 "2015-08-26T23:46:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/291 "2025-04-15T23:34:10Z")
You can set a group that can run the query. It’s in the settings for every wuery.
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### Author:  [@Naman\_Gala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Naman_Gala)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/292 "2025-04-15T23:47:07Z")
Yes after allowing the group, how a user in that particular group can run the query. They don’t see the plug-ins. From where do they find the query
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/293 "2025-04-16T01:07:59Z")
Send them the link to the query.
Have you tried it as a regular user?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 9:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/294 "2025-04-16T09:31:55Z")
The report is shown in the reports section of that group.
`{yoursite}/g/{group}/reports`
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/295 "2025-07-16T21:09:17Z")
🥳 This plugin is now bundled with Discourse core as part of [Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bundling-more-popular-plugins-with-discourse-core/373574). If you are self-hosting and use the plugin, you need to remove it from your `app.yml` before your next upgrade.
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### Author:  [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 10:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/296 "2025-09-29T10:07:32Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> The report is shown in the reports section of that group.
This was really not obvious to me. Took a while to figure out. Perhaps there is some way to make it more clear.
Question: Is it true that only admins can have access to the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true)? I can’t find anywhere this is stated explicitly, nor can I find a setting. Is this just hard coded?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/297 "2025-09-29T12:37:45Z")
> [@one1](#):
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> Question: Is it true that only admins can have access to the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true)? I
Only admins can create queries since having access to the whole database is a huge security concern (email addresses, ip addresses, and so on).
You can make queries available to members of a certain group, which it sounds like you’ve figured out.
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### Author:  [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/298 "2025-09-29T12:49:39Z")
Thanks. Mods can already see individual emails and ip addresses, so I wasn’t sure why the extra restriction. We trust our mods as much as we do our admins.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/299 "2025-09-29T16:01:38Z")
Perhaps those weren’t good examples. They could, say, have a user sent a login link, and then get the key from the database and log in as that user (which admins can do, but I think mods can’t?). They would also have access to all of the values of the settings and could get secrets (say, AI api keys, keys for authentication, and so on).
If you trust them to be admins, then you can just make them all admins. 🤷
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### Author:  [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/300 "2025-10-22T12:00:48Z")
Small UI suggestion:
If you had just clicked the pencil edit the report title and are faced with this, does it really make sense to click the X button to save the change? Doesn’t X usually mean cancel? I don’t use the DE often, but when I do and I need to edit the title, I always end up clicking the \< icon thinking that will save. That doesn’t. It takes you out of the report altogether.
Maybe I’m just dense, but wouldn’t it make much more sense if it was the same (perhaps identical?) to the change post title interface?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/301 "2025-10-22T12:22:11Z")
I started a topic on this a while ago using exactly the same example of topic edits.
> [@Confusion with saving edit of query name](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusion-with-saving-edit-of-query-name/345885):
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> I tried to rename one of my [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) queries and had difficulties saving my changes. First, I clicked the pencil to edit the name. Side note: It’s not that obvious that this is also the way to edit the description. Then I changed the name (and the description). However, I was unsure what to click next. In the screenshot above, you can find the “Save changes and run” button at the bottom. Why isn’t it possible to save the new name without running the query? Furthermor…
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### Author:  [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566/302 "2025-10-22T12:31:20Z")
Oh, yes. That is EXACTLY what I’m talking about. I’m sorry to see that there was no reaction at all. Seems like an obvious problem.
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