# Customizing colors in Kibana 4 widgets **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [October 1, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506 "2015-10-01T20:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjdepaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jjdepaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjdepaul)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/1 "2015-10-01T20:37:21Z")
We have a new requirement to highlight certain events in red to highlight them - is it possible to do that using the standard toolset?! Is customization of Kibana widgets possible - could you override the way certain things look, color scheme, highlights?! Is creation of new widgets possible in Kibana? ---
**Author:** ![jjdepaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jjdepaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjdepaul)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/2 "2015-10-02T16:12:13Z")
How do I highlight certain events in a list of events based on some conditions that I specify? ---
**Author:** ![Pieter\_Agenbag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pieter_agenbag/32/4562_2.png) [@Pieter\_Agenbag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pieter_Agenbag)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/3 "2015-10-05T09:07:10Z")
No, Its not possible - I think a certain level of customization is coming in KB 4.3 - [Color palette selection](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1362) ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/4 "2015-10-05T13:38:26Z")
There is also this Advanced setting that is coming in 4.2 (already in master): > ---
**Author:** ![Pieter\_Agenbag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pieter_agenbag/32/4562_2.png) [@Pieter\_Agenbag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pieter_Agenbag)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/5 "2015-10-06T07:41:41Z")
Am looking forward to this - just waiting for a non-beta release. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![jjdepaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jjdepaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjdepaul)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/6 "2015-11-06T21:19:53Z")
I have downloaded and installed the Kibana 4.0.0 and have migrated my visualizations there. I was hoping to find the additional Color Mapping options available in this release, but the only thing I found was on the Dashboards - it gives a choice to select "Dark Theme".... was hoping there is more options to control the color selection. I thought some of those choices would be available in R4.0.0 - did I misunderstand? ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/7 "2015-11-06T21:55:27Z")
Do you mean you downloaded Kibana 4.2? Then you should look for an advanced setting to associate a particular metric with a color called "colorMapping": [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/4894#issuecomment-140761869](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/4894#issuecomment-140761869) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/3853c5c590cba40aba874fed072b2e1795156b8e.png) The real UI-driven color palette selection is coming later. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1362](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1362) ---
**Author:** ![jjdepaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@jjdepaul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjdepaul)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/8 "2015-11-06T22:08:34Z")
No, Tanya, I downloaded and installed Kibana 4.0.0 from elastic site. I didn't see anything higher than that available for download.... ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/9 "2015-11-07T15:47:16Z")
Download Kibana 4.2.0, which is at the very top of the download page. [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/4/4064885466bf79b365d4d7b0fe36eb41ecd91fe1.png) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customizing-colors-in-kibana-4-widgets/31506/10 "2017-07-06T14:09:39Z")