# Kibana

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## [Discover view is very slow](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-view-is-very-slow/91810)

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**Author:** [@foxylion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/foxylion)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-view-is-very-slow/91810 "2017-07-05T18:21:45Z")

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Hi, we are using Kibana to browse our logs generated by filebeat and logstash. Currently we have ~120.000.000 log records, indexed with daily indices. Each index has replica=2 and shards=1. An index is about 300-500 mb…

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## [Visual Builder](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visual-builder/91745)

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**Author:** [@aaheaton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaheaton)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visual-builder/91745 "2017-07-05T16:15:19Z")

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Visual builder chart working fine under admin role but when user logs in the chart returns the error "The request for this panel failed.", all other charts are working fine. Is there a role I need to add to each user?

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## [Constructing a Request Using Kibana Saved Search Information](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/constructing-a-request-using-kibana-saved-search-information/91147)

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**Author:** [@JoeyMarinello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JoeyMarinello)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/constructing-a-request-using-kibana-saved-search-information/91147 "2017-07-05T16:10:09Z")

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Hello all! Newbie here. I am trying to build an external tool that constructs requests to Elasticsearch that will return the same data displayed in the discover tab of Kibana when a saved search is opened, and then exp…

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## [Sorting events with identical timestamps by order events were recorded](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-events-with-identical-timestamps-by-order-events-were-recorded/91318)

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**Author:** [@ld\_pvl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ld_pvl)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-events-with-identical-timestamps-by-order-events-were-recorded/91318 "2017-07-05T15:24:55Z")

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Hi Elastic Team, My question is similar to this topic. For documents with identical timestamps, can we sort them on kibana by the order the events/docs were recorded? Basically I want the log lines shown on Kibana to…

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## [Gauge in visual builder](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauge-in-visual-builder/86676)

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**Author:** [@GogLlundain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GogLlundain)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauge-in-visual-builder/86676 "2017-07-05T13:26:08Z")

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Hiya, I'm really enjoying the visual builder features in 5.4.0, I think it's a really powerful addition to the product. I've tried to marry up some of the Metricbeat data with a gauge and I'm getting weird results. The…

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## [Reporting - automatic reporting - monthly reports](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-automatic-reporting-monthly-reports/91766)

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**Author:** [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reporting-automatic-reporting-monthly-reports/91766 "2017-07-04T12:06:31Z")

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Hi all, Am using this snippet to generate automatic reports ,i tried to execute it works perfectly fine PUT \_xpack/watcher/watch/error\_report { "trigger" : { "schedule": { "interval": "1h" } }, "…

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## [Visualize only the values of the fields](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-only-the-values-of-the-fields/91793)

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**Author:** [@kartikeya\_sharma\_13](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kartikeya_sharma_13)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-only-the-values-of-the-fields/91793 "2017-07-05T09:18:38Z")

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Hi , I need to visualize only the values of the fields by some other field . I dont want to perform any sought of aggregation like Avg,Sum, Max,Min, Count on the values . I need to visualize it in Vertical Barchart . …

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## [Kibana 5.4.3 error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-4-3-error/91823)

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**Author:** [@sonnguyenit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sonnguyenit)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-4-3-error/91823 "2017-07-05T08:19:18Z")

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I use Kibaba 5.4.3. Yesterday it still worked find, but to day, i open it and get this error. I try to clear session and refresh it but sill get this error.

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## [View surrounding documents allow filter](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-surrounding-documents-allow-filter/91829)

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**Author:** [@Ryan\_Qian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ryan_Qian)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-surrounding-documents-allow-filter/91829 "2017-07-05T07:31:32Z")

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https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.x/document-context.html I see the document show here have filter, but my kibana 5.4.3 don't. which version should I use?

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## [Migrate Saved Searches from Kibana 3 to Kibana4](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-saved-searches-from-kibana-3-to-kibana4/48609)

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**Author:** [@EricRogers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EricRogers)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-saved-searches-from-kibana-3-to-kibana4/48609 "2017-07-05T06:09:25Z")

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Hey All! I've just completed the upgrade from Kibana 3 to Kibana 4 but I'm looking for a yml or some other file that holds my saved searches from Kibana 3 but I do not see anything. Are these gone and have to start o…

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## [Steps to migrate from kibana 3.0 to 4.0 please?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/steps-to-migrate-from-kibana-3-0-to-4-0-please/91840)

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**Author:** [@sandy2428](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandy2428)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 6:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/steps-to-migrate-from-kibana-3-0-to-4-0-please/91840 "2017-07-05T06:07:24Z")

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Hi all I want to migrate kibana 3 to kibana 4 in my company. Nowhere in Google or Forums ,the steps or process to migration is specified. The answers everywhere are very generic. It would be of great help if someone spe…

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## [Migrate dashboards from Kibana3 to Kibana4](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/837)

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**Author:** [@vvanhollebeke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vvanhollebeke)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/837 "2017-07-05T06:04:39Z")

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Hi, We are currently using Kibana 3 in my company. We plan to migrate to Kibana4 to benefit new improvements when building dashboards. My question is : How to migrate my old Kibana 3 dashboards to Kibana 4 ? Vincen…

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## [Users with any role (except superuser) cannot view events in kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-with-any-role-except-superuser-cannot-view-events-in-kibana/91617)

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**Author:** [@mkain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mkain)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 5, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/users-with-any-role-except-superuser-cannot-view-events-in-kibana/91617 "2017-07-05T03:55:44Z")

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Hi, I have managed to install x-pack plugin on ELK 5.4.1. When I have created a user "guest" with "kibana\_user" role. But after getting into kibana no events are visible to the user. I can see same behavior with other…

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## [Timelion: reduce\_search\_phase\_exception](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-reduce-search-phase-exception/91786)

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**Author:** [@dreadlocked1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dreadlocked1)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-reduce-search-phase-exception/91786 "2017-07-04T15:52:21Z")

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Hi, when I plug any new winlogbeat agent to Logstash, Kibana starts showing the following error message. I'm over an Ubuntu 16.06 system, and using the following versions: LS: 5.4.0 ES: 5.3.0 KB: 5.1.1 Error: in c…

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## [Kibana Visualization Field Formatting and Ordering](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-field-formatting-and-ordering/91783)

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**Author:** [@varundbest](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/varundbest)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualization-field-formatting-and-ordering/91783 "2017-07-04T15:43:50Z")

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So i have 2 Requirements:- There is a date histogram with monthly interval and on X-Axis, i am getting intervals like :- 2017-02-01, 2017-03-01 but i want them to be February 2017, March 2017. Any idea? If i am to dev…

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## [Production Mode vs Development Mode in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/production-mode-vs-development-mode-in-kibana/91078)

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**Author:** [@PrabakarKaruppasamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrabakarKaruppasamy)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/production-mode-vs-development-mode-in-kibana/91078 "2017-07-04T14:43:22Z")

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Hi All, How can we ensure the Kibana is runing in Prod Mode or Dev Mode., or what is the difference between dev mode or prod mode in Kibana. Same thing I got info for elastic search in https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pr…

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## [Kibana Discover: User regexp/wildcard in search bar](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-user-regexp-wildcard-in-search-bar/90592)

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**Author:** [@Pavlo\_Ivanchyshyn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pavlo_Ivanchyshyn)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-user-regexp-wildcard-in-search-bar/90592 "2017-07-04T13:09:37Z")

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I'm using Kibana's Discover page to find some data in my application. It's working find, but when I want to find something like this: app\_message: "You are the /\\d/ user in our system" I can't catch it properly. I …

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## [How to synchronize tcpdump/pcap file time with kibana?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-synchronize-tcpdump-pcap-file-time-with-kibana/91706)

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**Author:** [@Gurram\_Vinay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gurram_Vinay)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-synchronize-tcpdump-pcap-file-time-with-kibana/91706 "2017-07-04T09:55:17Z")

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I have a JSON data of pcap file as shown in I want to synchronize in kibana, but Here in kibana, "Index contains time-based events" (if I checked the box then unable to load the "Time-field name"),If I unchecked the bo…

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## [How can I plot Google map with Long and Lat?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-plot-google-map-with-long-and-lat/91647)

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**Author:** [@patil-akshay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/patil-akshay)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-plot-google-map-with-long-and-lat/91647 "2017-07-04T08:02:38Z")

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I have two columns in my data I am loading data directly using bulk API(without logstash) I want to plot the map how can I plot it or else what is format of GEOIP which kibana accepts by default how to convert lat long …

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## [Generation URL not working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generation-url-not-working/61708)

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**Author:** [@bwgriffith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bwgriffith)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [November 30, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/generation-url-not-working/61708 "2016-11-30T09:21:35Z")

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I have reporting setup in a shield environment. I am about to create a report via the "Document Generation" printable button. However, when I create a report via the Generation URL and try to access that URL I receive…

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## [Capture bandwidth of each unique url](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capture-bandwidth-of-each-unique-url/91310)

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**Author:** [@Allan\_John](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Allan_John)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capture-bandwidth-of-each-unique-url/91310 "2017-07-04T03:35:11Z")

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Hi, I have some urls that come in this format in elastic search: 192.168.1.1/livestream/test/media.m3u8 192.168.1.1/livestream/test/media\_aqbcd00100.ts 192.168.1.1/livestream/test/media\_aqbcd00101.ts 192.168.1.1/liv…

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## [Machine Learning in Kibana - Jobs List could not be retrieved at UI](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-in-kibana-jobs-list-could-not-be-retrieved-at-ui/91683)

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**Author:** [@jacaraba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jacaraba)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/machine-learning-in-kibana-jobs-list-could-not-be-retrieved-at-ui/91683 "2017-07-03T18:42:40Z")

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Hi guys, I have installed Elasticsearch 5.4.3 and Kibana 5.4.3 in the same server. They are communicating through their ip address at ports 9200 and 5601 respectively. Kibana is being accessed behind a proxy. I have …

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## [Automatic reporting not getting email](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-reporting-not-getting-email/91239)

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**Author:** [@Raj\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj_Kumar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 29, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatic-reporting-not-getting-email/91239 "2017-06-29T08:06:45Z")

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Hi All, Iam trying to generate a automatic report using xpack reporting through watcher.I tried this Iam tying to generate reports automatically through watcher using PUT \_xpack/watcher/watch/error\_report { "trigg…

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## [Painless: string to word list](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-string-to-word-list/91532)

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**Author:** [@smlbiobot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smlbiobot)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 5:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-string-to-word-list/91532 "2017-07-03T17:49:08Z")

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I am trying to break a string field into a list of words in order to do word occurrence count, but am having some trouble figuring how to write it properly. This is difficult especially since there is no way for me to sa…

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## [How to visualize data with the latest date](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-data-with-the-latest-date/91552)

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**Author:** [@mkudlinski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mkudlinski)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-data-with-the-latest-date/91552 "2017-07-03T17:27:02Z")

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Hi all, How to create a visualization that takes into account only documents with the latest date? Let's say I have documents with three fields: \* Name \* Status \* Date And now I would like to create a chart (Name vs …

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## [Hide histogram in discover](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-histogram-in-discover/91555)

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**Author:** [@uniquenospaces](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uniquenospaces)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-histogram-in-discover/91555 "2017-07-03T16:38:16Z")

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Hi, Is is possible to hide the histogram in discover? Ideally, it should collapse when clicking the "collapse" button. Instead, I'm getting the visualisation spy. This seems counter-intuitive to me. Thanks in advance.

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## [Excel looking data tables with columns and rows](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excel-looking-data-tables-with-columns-and-rows/91564)

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**Author:** [@ssddgreg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssddgreg)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excel-looking-data-tables-with-columns-and-rows/91564 "2017-07-03T16:32:30Z")

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I am struggling to get Kibana data tables with advance filtering like Excel has with more dimensions in representing data. I come uo with multiple queries, visuations and a single Dashboard. Is there a plugin / addon o…

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## [Kibana dashboard got blocked](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-got-blocked/91570)

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**Author:** [@Rajat\_Singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajat_Singh)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-got-blocked/91570 "2017-07-03T16:17:46Z")

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Hi folks, I wanted that no one can make changes into my dashboard so i tried it with restrict the user access using api curl -XPUT 'http://10.150.86.175:9200/Index Name/\_settings' -d '{ "index.blocks.read\_only" : tr…

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## [Scripted Field for elements inside lists of JSON objects](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scripted-field-for-elements-inside-lists-of-json-objects/91585)

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**Author:** [@smlbiobot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/smlbiobot)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scripted-field-for-elements-inside-lists-of-json-objects/91585 "2017-07-03T16:08:42Z")

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I have been trying to use scripted fields to test for elements which exists inside a list, but after hours of trying different syntax + reading the documentations, I still can’t figure out how to do it properly. Here is …

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## [How to get all indexes in dashboard $scope](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-all-indexes-in-dashboard-scope/91582)

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**Author:** [@whoami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whoami)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 3, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-all-indexes-in-dashboard-scope/91582 "2017-07-03T15:54:33Z")

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I wanna write a navbar plugin in dashboard, and how can I get all indexes name list in dashboard $scope, seems can only get the panelJSON

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