diff --git a/src/app/services/dashboard.js b/src/app/services/dashboard.js
index 5934f349c5796..23582c3b65e8f 100644
--- a/src/app/services/dashboard.js
+++ b/src/app/services/dashboard.js
@@ -184,6 +184,9 @@ function (angular, $, kbn, _, config, moment, Modernizr) {
       // Set the current dashboard
       self.current = _.clone(dashboard);
 
+      // Set header to trace requests, encoding for non-ascii chars
+      $http.defaults.headers.common['kibana-dashboard'] = encodeURIComponent(self.current.title);
+
       // Ok, now that we've setup the current dashboard, we can inject our services
       querySrv = $injector.get('querySrv');
       filterSrv = $injector.get('filterSrv');