# Kibana

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## [No histogram in Discover](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-histogram-in-discover/155308)

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**Author:** [@danielkhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielkhan)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-histogram-in-discover/155308 "2018-11-05T19:13:25Z")

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Hello, I am using kibana to browse data from syslog. I previous setups I always got a histogram on the Discover tab. For unknown reasons, it does not show up in my latest deployment. I have a time field in my log messa…

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## [How to restore dashboards](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393)

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**Author:** [@emma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emma1)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393 "2018-11-05T17:52:33Z")

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I did delete \* in dev environment by mistake how to restore it :frowning: ;(

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## [No monitoring data found: IndexNotFoundException](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-monitoring-data-found-indexnotfoundexception/155431)

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**Author:** [@vnallamothu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vnallamothu)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-monitoring-data-found-indexnotfoundexception/155431 "2018-11-05T16:52:27Z")

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Hi, I'm seeing "No monitoring data found in Kibana Dashboard". In elasticsearch logs, I found following: \[2018-11-05T11:11:09,553\]\[WARN \]\[o.e.x.m.e.l.LocalExporter\] unexpected error whi …

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## [Kibana 6.4. Save API - Settings. Error. 3005 - Not Found](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-save-api-settings-error-3005-not-found/155322)

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**Author:** [@KoalaForensics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KoalaForensics)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-6-4-save-api-settings-error-3005-not-found/155322 "2018-11-05T16:48:29Z")

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Hello, I am new user of Kibana. After install on my Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS I go to http://127.0.0.1:5601/ and to tab settings and I enter date which ones I add to document kibana.yml. After pressing Save API I get next error…

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## [Coordinate map stopped working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/coordinate-map-stopped-working/153843)

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**Author:** [@Azulath](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Azulath)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/coordinate-map-stopped-working/153843 "2018-11-05T15:42:51Z")

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I've been using Kibana's coordinate map every now and again and today I discovered that my coordinate map visualisation stopped\* working. When selecting Index Patterns it lists the "Geo" field with the type "geo\_point".…

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## [Visualise Memory per Process in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualise-memory-per-process-in-kibana/155407)

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**Author:** [@johncam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johncam)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualise-memory-per-process-in-kibana/155407 "2018-11-05T15:16:12Z")

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I have modified my metricbeat.yml to include two entries (memory paged and non-paged pool bytes) for a specific process under perfmon. What I'd like to do is present these as a data table, eliminating entries for those…

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## [Does Tag cloud support arrays as an input?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-tag-cloud-support-arrays-as-an-input/155420)

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**Author:** [@elhamroshan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elhamroshan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-tag-cloud-support-arrays-as-an-input/155420 "2018-11-05T15:14:55Z")

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Hi, I'm interested to know if I can give an array of string as an input to a tag cloud visualization? I expect Kibana then to consider each individual item of this array for each document, as an individual input. For e…

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## [Unable to connect ElassticSearch on Dockers Container](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-elassticsearch-on-dockers-container/155347)

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**Author:** [@shahid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shahid)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-connect-elassticsearch-on-dockers-container/155347 "2018-11-05T15:12:34Z")

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Hi Teach Team, My ELK server in on a Host machine (AWS Ec2) i deployed / install the ELK by Dockers-Container. Today morning when i tried to login on my Kibann UI i got this the error. Unable to connect with east…

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## [Why Vega view container with hidden scrollbar?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-vega-view-container-with-hidden-scrollbar/155401)

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**Author:** [@fxprunayre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fxprunayre)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-vega-view-container-with-hidden-scrollbar/155401 "2018-11-05T14:50:51Z")

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Hi, is there any reasons to have scrollbar hidden in vega view container ? Related to https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/core\_plugins/vega/public/\_vega\_vis.scss#L17. When using row/column layout it is …

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## [Contributing guide instructions in master branch don't work](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/contributing-guide-instructions-in-master-branch-dont-work/155374)

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**Author:** [@trex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/trex)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/contributing-guide-instructions-in-master-branch-dont-work/155374 "2018-11-05T14:47:24Z")

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NodeJS 8.11.4, https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git, tag v6.4.2 I follow the contribution guide and do git clone https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git cd kibana git checkout v6.4.2 yarn kbn bootstrap and get yarn ru…

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## [Creating index pattern... hanging](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-index-pattern-hanging/155340)

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**Author:** [@davoti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davoti)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-index-pattern-hanging/155340 "2018-11-05T14:15:25Z")

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Hi I freshly installed ES/kibana 6.4.2 on centos6, curl http://my\_ip:9200 ok, launch kibana from chrome also ok,,, when trying to create index pattern, it just hangs there,,, even when I tried to use kibana\_sample\_data\_…

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## [How to group similar messages on a chart](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-group-similar-messages-on-a-chart/155080)

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**Author:** [@gnumoksha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gnumoksha)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-group-similar-messages-on-a-chart/155080 "2018-11-05T12:28:45Z")

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Hi. We are sending our application logs directly to elasticsearch and visualizing them in some graphs. But some log messages are about the same thing, just some parts are different. So we need to group this messages by t…

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## [Horizontal scroll in kibana discover](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/horizontal-scroll-in-kibana-discover/150857)

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**Author:** [@kishore\_narni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kishore_narni)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/horizontal-scroll-in-kibana-discover/150857 "2018-11-05T11:03:23Z")

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When iam seeing the data through kibana search. This horizontal scrollbar issue is big trouble for us especially when there are more number of columns and rows. While seeing the data, horizontal scroll bar is appearing…

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## [.keyword problem of last version of kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-problem-of-last-version-of-kibana/155366)

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**Author:** [@cemkuleyin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cemkuleyin)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-problem-of-last-version-of-kibana/155366 "2018-11-05T10:34:56Z")

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Hi, I have a big problem with keyword type. We updated our kibana version from 5 to 6. We used field without .keyword type. But .keyword came with new version of kibana. We dont want to use .keyword. Can you help me th…

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## [Data Table shows No results found, I guess because of unique entries](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-table-shows-no-results-found-i-guess-because-of-unique-entries/155175)

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**Author:** [@humalog](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/humalog)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-table-shows-no-results-found-i-guess-because-of-unique-entries/155175 "2018-11-05T09:54:54Z")

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Hi folks, i try to visualize a Data Table. I have a XML File which i indexed. I have following issue: I am not able to get the text of an element of the XML file into the Data Table, because there is a blank line befor…

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## [What is the proper syntax to use for this search please?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-proper-syntax-to-use-for-this-search-please/155312)

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**Author:** [@Wanderer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wanderer)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-proper-syntax-to-use-for-this-search-please/155312 "2018-11-05T02:07:56Z")

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I've tried surrounding the text below with and "" but just get errors of: Discover: Expected ":", "\<", "\<=", "\>", "\>=", "and", "or", \[\\ \\t\\r\\n\] or end of input but "d" found. Discover: Expected "\*", "", \[\\ \\t\\r\\n\] or …

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## [Kibana Vega - Showing tooltip on parallel coordinates](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-showing-tooltip-on-parallel-coordinates/151020)

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**Author:** [@deuskars](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/deuskars)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2018, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-vega-showing-tooltip-on-parallel-coordinates/151020 "2018-11-05T02:01:14Z")

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Hi, Quick summary of what I want the visualization to be like ... I have multiple IHS proxys which route requests to a bunch of servers. I want to draw a parallel coordinates graph that would show the number of request…

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## [Monitor my AWS services](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-my-aws-services/154975)

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**Author:** [@shahid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shahid)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 4, 2018, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitor-my-aws-services/154975 "2018-11-04T08:49:13Z")

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Hi Tech Team, I setup my ELK on AWS EC2 Instance. Now i need to monitor my AWS services from ELK. SQS SNS SES Lambda ElasticBeanStalk EC2 ELB S3 CDN CodeDeploy Billing How can i do that. Need your help . T…

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## [Timelion gives different result when it auto refreshes](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-gives-different-result-when-it-auto-refreshes/155182)

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**Author:** [@Hugo\_Hendriks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hugo_Hendriks)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 3, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-gives-different-result-when-it-auto-refreshes/155182 "2018-11-03T10:24:34Z")

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Hi, I have a Timelion visualization which works fine with auto refresh when i set it to 4 hours. When I set the timeframe to Today So far, when it refreshes the timelion graph, it comes up with different graphs which is…

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## [Creating Visualizations from Mixed Data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-visualizations-from-mixed-data/155231)

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**Author:** [@Luis\_N](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luis_N)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-visualizations-from-mixed-data/155231 "2018-11-02T23:11:27Z")

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I am very new to ELK and have researched a LOT in the past few weeks. I have a full ELK dev as such setup VM Server nGinx -\> Kibana 6.x \<- ElasticStash 6.x \<- Logstash 6.x VMClient NagiosCheckBeat -\> (Via SSL Cert) V…

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## [Kibana keeps asking me to set index](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keeps-asking-me-to-set-index/154089)

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**Author:** [@leeadh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leeadh)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-keeps-asking-me-to-set-index/154089 "2018-11-02T18:01:50Z")

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Dear all, I am using Kibana for my kubernetes. It keeps directing me to the management to ask me to set my index. I have already set index pattern to be \* and i didnt set any time filter everytime when I hit the kibana …

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## [How can we get the user metrics](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082)

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**Author:** [@rajkumar.m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajkumar.m)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-get-the-user-metrics/155082 "2018-11-02T17:37:50Z")

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Hi Team, How can we get the user metrics I would like to know how many users are accessing/hitting my kibana dashboards Please advise

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## [Timelion: comparison between today's results and the average of one month](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-comparison-between-todays-results-and-the-average-of-one-month/154985)

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**Author:** [@karam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karam)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-comparison-between-todays-results-and-the-average-of-one-month/154985 "2018-11-02T17:07:27Z")

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I wish in a Timelion compare the results today with those of the month (the average of the month). I did : .es(timefield=@timestamp), .es(offset=-1M, timefield=@timestamp) I do not know what exactly is the offset = -1…

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## [Split series size - being able to show the remaining (cut off) part on the graph](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-series-size-being-able-to-show-the-remaining-cut-off-part-on-the-graph/155048)

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**Author:** [@pz07](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pz07)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-series-size-being-able-to-show-the-remaining-cut-off-part-on-the-graph/155048 "2018-11-02T17:03:51Z")

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I'm using split series functionality to group incoming traffic by its type. It all works fine, but with one or two hundreds of types the graph becomes unresponsive and not very readable. I can use 'Size' field to limit …

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## [How to pass current filters into the URL](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-current-filters-into-the-url/152560)

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**Author:** [@wheelq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wheelq)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-pass-current-filters-into-the-url/152560 "2018-11-02T16:49:01Z")

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I have found cool feature in the Visual builder under the 'Top N'. If you go to the Panel Options, you can find the 'Item Url' where you can pass some data into the destination URL. This means I can create URLs with pred…

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## [Installation and first start](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-first-start/152018)

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**Author:** [@paolom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paolom)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-and-first-start/152018 "2018-11-02T16:26:31Z")

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Hi all, I try to install and configure ELK Stack for the first time. The installation was made with the official site instruction on OpenSuse OS, but probably somethig goes wrong. When I try to start my Kibana istance …

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## [Kibana not connecting to elasticserach after adding tls/ssl and https](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting-to-elasticserach-after-adding-tls-ssl-and-https/154926)

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**Author:** [@rmadoori](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rmadoori)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-not-connecting-to-elasticserach-after-adding-tls-ssl-and-https/154926 "2018-11-02T15:46:44Z")

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Kibana unable to connect to elastic search ERROR \`{"type":"error","@timestamp":"2018-10-31T20:46:20Z","tags":\["connection","client","error"\],"pid":1,"level":"error","error":{"message":"socket hang up","name":"Error","…

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## [Limit what restricted user can see in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-what-restricted-user-can-see-in-kibana/154857)

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**Author:** [@kpover](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kpover)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-what-restricted-user-can-see-in-kibana/154857 "2018-11-02T15:36:49Z")

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Hello, I have an elastic stack that is storing data for two different teams. I am trying to set up security so that one team cannot see the other teams data. I have been able to achieve this to a point using security an…

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## [How to login automatically with request header](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-login-automatically-with-request-header/155104)

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**Author:** [@wujiaxin159](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wujiaxin159)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-login-automatically-with-request-header/155104 "2018-11-02T14:57:14Z")

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The gateway actively writes user information to the header, and I want to know how to log in directly through this header information. For example: Request Headers: userID: admin userName: admin

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## [Does not take the timezone of dateFormat: tz in kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-not-take-the-timezone-of-dateformat-tz-in-kibana/154393)

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**Author:** [@Diego\_Nogueira1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Diego_Nogueira1)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [November 2, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-not-take-the-timezone-of-dateformat-tz-in-kibana/154393 "2018-11-02T13:38:12Z")

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Hello everyone, I am having a problem in the axes of my timelion since the timezone of Brazil was changed, I have already adjusted the global configuration in kibana and resolved to the discovery, but for the timelion n…

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