# Can I make an admin account that can temporarily block all other users accessing Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-make-an-admin-account-that-can-temporarily-block-all-other-users-accessing-kibana/216838>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-make-an-admin-account-that-can-temporarily-block-all-other-users-accessing-kibana/216838 "2020-01-28T13:05:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![EdH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f6c823/32.png) [@EdH](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EdH)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-make-an-admin-account-that-can-temporarily-block-all-other-users-accessing-kibana/216838/1 "2020-01-28T13:05:04Z")

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Hi,

I have encountered a problem where lots of people are trying to access Kibana at once and it causes it to run slowly/struggle. Lots of these connections are non critical ones but sometimes it is critical that the admin account can access things but others are slowing it down. Is it possible to create a setting/log in account that blocks all other accounts being able access Kibana while it was online? That way the admin would always be able to see issues without having to gamble that others aren't having a look at that moment in time.

Thanks,  
Ed

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**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:** [January 30, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-make-an-admin-account-that-can-temporarily-block-all-other-users-accessing-kibana/216838/2 "2020-01-30T17:40:57Z")

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Hello Ed,

unfortunately this isn't possible right now. But, you can control which parts of Kibana they will access by using spaces and feature controls. Please read the following blogposts and they should help.

> **[Introducing Kibana Spaces for Organization and Security](https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-kibana-spaces-for-organization-and-security)**
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> New in 6.5, organize your dashboards, visualizations, and other saved objects with Kibana Spaces.

> **[Introducing Kibana feature controls: Curating and securing feature access](https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-kibana-feature-controls-curating-and-securing-feature-access)**
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> Elasticsearch and Kibana security is now free. And in Kibana 7.2, you can control which features are available to which users. With role-based access control (RBAC), you can easily grant Read-only or All privileges, or define custom privileges. You...

That should help?

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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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:** [February 27, 2020, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-make-an-admin-account-that-can-temporarily-block-all-other-users-accessing-kibana/216838/3 "2020-02-27T17:41:12Z")

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