# Configuration of Kibana running in Docker **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** docker\ **Created:** [July 8, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-running-in-docker/278181 "2021-07-08T11:37:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ppuschmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppuschmann/32/146751_2.png) [@ppuschmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppuschmann)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-running-in-docker/278181/1 "2021-07-08T11:37:29Z")
Hi, we're running Kibana as a Docker-container and can configure some options with environment-variables, but not all. These see to work just fine: ```auto "ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS": "http://xxxxxxx:9200", "ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD": "password", "ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_VERIFICATIONMODE": "none", "ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME": "username", "LOGGING_DEST": "stdout", "LOGGING_JSON": "true", "SERVER_NAME": "kibana-1", "SERVER_PORT": "8080", ``` But apparently these aren't changing anything in the running container: ```auto "KIBANA_DEFAULTROUTE": "/app/discover", "NEWSFEED_ENABLED": "false", "STATUS_ALLOWANONYMOUS": "true", "TELEMETRY_ENABLED": "false", "TELEMETRY_OPTIN": "false" "XPACK_APM_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_APM_UI_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_GRAPH_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_GROKDEBUGGER_ENABLED": "true", "XPACK_INFRA_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_ML_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_REPORTING_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_SIEM_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_TELEMETRY_ENABLED": "false", "XPACK_UPTIME_ENABLED": "false", ``` ^ formatting/style copied from our Nomad-Job. The main goal was to disable the not-needed menu-items like "Observability", "Security", "Enterprise Search". Used Kibana version is `7.12.1`. Official Elastic Docker-image On a different Kibana instance, deployed as a Debian-package, the configuration in the kibana.yml (using the different notation) is working fine. Is there still some sort of limited list of allowed ENV-variables for Kibana or is some undocumented prefix missing? Regarding naming / formatting of ENV-variable names I only found this: [Install Kibana with Docker | Kibana Guide [7.13] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/docker.html#environment-variable-config) What could be the issue for Kibana not picking up the configuration? ---
**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-running-in-docker/278181/2 "2021-07-08T16:57:22Z")
@ppuschmann could you provide more information around how are you setting those variables? @jbudz looks like some of the variables reported as "not working" are already allowed at [dockerfiles/kibana-docker at 7.12 · elastic/dockerfiles · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/dockerfiles/blob/7.12/kibana/bin/kibana-docker). Do you have any other ideas around why those might not be working? ---
**Author:** ![ppuschmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppuschmann/32/146751_2.png) [@ppuschmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppuschmann)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-running-in-docker/278181/3 "2021-07-08T17:48:02Z")
The variables are set in the [env-stanza in a Nomad-Job](https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/job-specification/env). The above snippets are the content of ```auto "Env": { } ``` (here in JSON-format) Even some `docker inspect ` shows: ```auto "Env": [ "ELASTICSEARCH_HOSTS=http://xxxxxxx:9200", "ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=password", "ELASTICSEARCH_SSL_VERIFICATIONMODE=none", "ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME=user", "KIBANA_DEFAULTROUTE=/app/discover", "LOGGING_DEST=stdout", "LOGGING_JSON=true", "NEWSFEED_ENABLED=false", "SERVER_NAME=kibana-1", "SERVER_PORT=8080", "SERVICE_8080_NAME=kibana-1", "STATUS_ALLOWANONYMOUS=true", "TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false", "TELEMETRY_OPTIN=false", "XPACK_APM_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_APM_UI_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_GRAPH_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_GROKDEBUGGER_ENABLED=true", "XPACK_INFRA_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_ML_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_REPORTING_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_SIEM_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false", "XPACK_UPTIME_ENABLED=false", "PATH=/usr/share/kibana/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin", "ELASTIC_CONTAINER=true" ], ``` (plus some additional vars) ---
**Author:** ![ppuschmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppuschmann/32/146751_2.png) [@ppuschmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppuschmann)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-running-in-docker/278181/4 "2021-08-02T13:10:20Z")
Was there any update so far? I'd now try testing with (more) recent versions. ---
**Author:** ![ppuschmann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppuschmann/32/146751_2.png) [@ppuschmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppuschmann)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-running-in-docker/278181/5 "2021-08-11T15:43:55Z")
Apparently it is currently not possible to disable these menu-items globally in Kibana (as of `7.14.0`): > The main goal was to disable the not-needed menu-items like "Observability", "Security", "Enterprise Search". ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-kibana-running-in-docker/278181/7 "2021-09-08T17:52:53Z")
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