# DevTools menu is not shown in the menu panel of Kibana 5.6.16

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 28, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/devtools-menu-is-not-shown-in-the-menu-panel-of-kibana-5-6-16/246701 "2020-08-28T01:58:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![girlie.tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@girlie.tan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/girlie.tan)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/devtools-menu-is-not-shown-in-the-menu-panel-of-kibana-5-6-16/246701/1 "2020-08-28T01:58:22Z")

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DevTools menu is not shown in the menu panel of Kibana 5.6.16

Please share the step by step to troubleshoot.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/devtools-menu-is-not-shown-in-the-menu-panel-of-kibana-5-6-16/246701/2 "2020-08-28T05:02:12Z")

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> [@girlie.tan](#):
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> hown in the menu panel of Kibana 5.6.16
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> Please share the step by step to troubleshoot.
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> Thank you.

Can you please elaborate with more screenshots? Whom are you logged in as ? Should be under the management menu.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![girlie.tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@girlie.tan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/girlie.tan)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/devtools-menu-is-not-shown-in-the-menu-panel-of-kibana-5-6-16/246701/3 "2020-08-28T07:22:34Z")

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![DevToolmissing](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/f/efe05dfee709387f5ecd316211a97510814814f1.png)

username password is not enabled in kibana.yml

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**Author:** ![girlie.tan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@girlie.tan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/girlie.tan)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/devtools-menu-is-not-shown-in-the-menu-panel-of-kibana-5-6-16/246701/4 "2020-09-04T10:43:22Z")

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**console.enabled : true** has displayed the DevTools in the menu panel.

reference

> [@Kibana ignores console.enabled setting](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-ignores-console-enabled-setting/96981/2):
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> Hi, Dev tools contain only console in OSS Kibana and also has profiler and grokdebugger if you have x-pack. console.enabled: false should definitely work for disabling console. But profiler and grok debugger will need to be disabled separately as well. Can you please check if your Kibana has x-pack installed? Also whenever you change /add/delete anything in Kibana.yml - when you restart, Kibana will need to optimize again. It looks like this in logs: log [15:03:08.119] [info][optimize] Optim…

thankful

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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:** [October 2, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/devtools-menu-is-not-shown-in-the-menu-panel-of-kibana-5-6-16/246701/5 "2020-10-02T10:43:24Z")

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