Public charts and data access

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Hello

What are the implications of enabling public read access to my charts dashboard and the relevant data sources?

Will this give public users access over the entire collection?

I would like to expose a charts dashboard to our player base. The chart will have some ‘fun’ stats like the number of matches today or the hourly active player count. (Similar to something like https://steamcharts.com/)

But I don’t want to give access to the entire collection publicly. I just want to expose the charts themselves.

So I guess my question is… unauthenticated access is enabled does this mean a malicious user could read the data and perform their own aggregation/look ups on our data much like the dashboard can? Or is the ‘unathenticated access’ limited to the queries the charts need to execute to populate?

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Unauthenticated users can only access the data that is visible on the charts. They cannot get access to the raw data in the collection.

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