# Add left-hand menu options **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [July 6, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-left-hand-menu-options/138813 "2018-07-06T02:24:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sm-biz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sm-biz/32/30636_2.png) [@sm-biz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sm-biz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-left-hand-menu-options/138813/1 "2018-07-06T02:24:29Z")
Does anyone have a quick tutorial/pointer/link on using a plugin to add additional menu options on the left-hand menu in Kibana, each with a user-definable link? We've got dozens and dozens of dashboards in our instance, many intended for different teams, and organising them is challenging. 4 'main' dashboards were created to act as top-level navigation items, with some summary visualisations and Markdown to link to the sub-dashboards. What I'd like to do, to make things easier for everyone, is include links to those main dashboards directly in the left-hand menu (preferably directly under the 'Dashboards' link). I already have basic plugin knowledge (we use a plugin to style Kibana) so if there was a way to inject one or more items in the navigation per-plugin, each with an arbitrary link that I would set to a given main dashboard, it would be ideal. Running ELK 6.2 Thanks ---
**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-left-hand-menu-options/138813/2 "2018-07-06T13:23:12Z")
Hello, I think you might have to write one as an example. I went through the known plugins list here: [Known plugins | Kibana Guide [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/known-plugins.html) and I don't see anything jumping out. Currently you are definitely doing it the way a lot of our stack and users are doing it. > We've got dozens and dozens of dashboards in our instance, many intended for different teams, and organising them is challenging. 4 'main' dashboards were created to act as top-level navigation items, with some summary visualisations and Markdown to link to the sub-dashboards. You can make the user land in dashboard as their default app using Kibana config file. But that doesn't really solve the problem? Thanks, Bhavya ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-left-hand-menu-options/138813/3 "2018-07-06T13:32:39Z")
Hey @sm-biz, We are actively working on a feature which allows you to organize your dashboards, visualizations, etc into "Spaces". It sounds like this will be a great fit for your use-case. You can track our progress (and vote!) here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18948](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18948) To answer your actual question about adding links to the left-hand menu, take a look at Kibana's `chromeNavControlsRegistry`. Here's an example of the Security Plugin registering a link: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/fe4609647dd2a7a7fedfb23d63f5886a24eacbe1/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/nav\_control/nav\_control.js](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/fe4609647dd2a7a7fedfb23d63f5886a24eacbe1/x-pack/plugins/security/public/views/nav_control/nav_control.js) ---
**Author:** ![sm-biz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sm-biz/32/30636_2.png) [@sm-biz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sm-biz)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-left-hand-menu-options/138813/4 "2018-07-07T14:23:36Z")
Thanks guys, both very helpful Spaces sounds like it'll be a great fit, I'll keep an eye out for it. In the meantime, I'll use the default feature in kibana.yml to send everyone to a super-dashboard, which will then direct them to one of the 4 main dashboards, each of which then has links to specific dashboards. I think is kind of like Spaces anyway? With the super-dashboard being the Spaces chooser screen, then the 4 main dashboards being the 'landing page' for each of the Spaces? Cheers ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-left-hand-menu-options/138813/5 "2018-08-04T14:23:36Z")
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