# Change default view in "Discover"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-view-in-discover/366858>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 20, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-view-in-discover/366858 "2024-09-20T07:30:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![KaWa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@KaWa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KaWa)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-view-in-discover/366858/1 "2024-09-20T07:30:21Z")

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Hi,

I'd like to change the default view in "Analytics --\> Discover" from "alerts-security.alerts-default,....,-_elastic-cloud-logs-_" to "logs-\*".  
How can one do this?

Thanks in advance  
Kai

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Version: 8.15.1

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**Author:** ![jughosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jughosta/32/107160_2.png) [@jughosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jughosta)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-view-in-discover/366858/2 "2024-09-20T07:54:35Z")

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Hi @KaWa,  
Welcome to the community!

There is an option to define a default data view on Advanced Settings page. The setting is called `defaultIndex` and it accepts a data view ID.

 ![Screenshot 2024-09-20 at 09.52.24](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/c/4c8248d950e28bd048528cf8b6f5cd292a059898.png)

Once configured, it would preselect this data view when navigating to `/app/discover`.

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**Author:** ![KaWa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@KaWa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KaWa)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-view-in-discover/366858/3 "2024-09-20T08:04:32Z")

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Thank you, @jughosta for the quick reply.

With the option given, I change the default view for **every** user in the system, right?

Can I change it individually for each colleague or team? Like "security team likes alerts", "IT team likes logs", ...

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![jughosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jughosta/32/107160_2.png) [@jughosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jughosta)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-view-in-discover/366858/4 "2024-09-20T08:25:55Z")

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If you give access only to certain Spaces and define the setting per Space then it would work [Spaces | Kibana Guide [8.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/xpack-spaces.html)

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**Author:** ![KaWa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@KaWa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KaWa)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-view-in-discover/366858/5 "2024-09-20T08:29:09Z")

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Thank you!

I'll try that.