# Can we restrict an user to access particular tabs in kibana?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-restrict-an-user-to-access-particular-tabs-in-kibana/113762
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 2, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-restrict-an-user-to-access-particular-tabs-in-kibana/113762 "2018-01-02T11:25:41Z")
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### Author:  [@sreenu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sreenu)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2018, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-restrict-an-user-to-access-particular-tabs-in-kibana/113762/1 "2018-01-02T11:25:41Z")
So, my requirement is I want to restrict access to a person to specific tabs(Discover, Visualize, Timelion, Devtools etc) of kibana dashboard i.e. if a person is a normal user, he/she should be shown two tabs(Visualize,Timelion). If he/she is an admin, all tabs(Discover, Visualize, Timelion, Devtools etc) should be visible to him/her.
It will be great if someone can help me out in this.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Souciance\_Eqdam\_Rash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Souciance_Eqdam_Rash)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-restrict-an-user-to-access-particular-tabs-in-kibana/113762/2 "2018-01-02T11:44:02Z")
You will need the x-pack or secure guard plugin to do this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-restrict-an-user-to-access-particular-tabs-in-kibana/113762/3 "2018-01-30T11:44:10Z")
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