# About Kibana Settings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 28, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357 "2021-09-28T13:01:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357/1 "2021-09-28T13:01:12Z")

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Hi,  
Is there a way to view all of the configuration settings a kibana instance is running without access to the kibana config file? Version is 7.13.1.

Thx  
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**Author:** ![zx8086](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zx8086/32/94917_2.png) [@zx8086](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zx8086)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357/2 "2021-09-28T13:13:06Z")

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You can use the Rest API

> **[REST API | Kibana Guide \[7.15\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/api.html)**

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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357/3 "2021-09-28T13:41:01Z")

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That won't show these settings though will it?

> **[Configure Kibana | Kibana Guide \[7.15\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/settings.html)**

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**Author:** ![zx8086](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zx8086/32/94917_2.png) [@zx8086](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zx8086)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357/4 "2021-09-28T14:00:01Z")

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You can configure a lot via the API's,

What settings are you looking for that are missing from the Kibana API documentation ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357/5 "2021-09-28T22:33:23Z")

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I don't believe that we expose all settings in config files via the APIs as there are possible security concerns around some of the settings.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-kibana-settings/285357/6 "2021-10-26T22:33:40Z")

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