# Force hide settings button from bar and disable save option in Kibana 4
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 19, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678 "2015-08-19T14:30:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Fernando\_Gamboa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fernando_Gamboa)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678/1 "2015-08-19T14:30:19Z")
Hello,
While using the Packetbeat demo I noticed that the settings option is not shown and the save button is partially disabled.
How can I do this?
All the best,
Fernando
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### Author:  [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678/2 "2015-08-20T07:49:26Z")
Hi,
To remove the settings from the top bar, we simply removed the `plugins/settings/index` from the `bundled_plugin_ids` list in your `kibana.yml`. Hat tip to @warkolm for the suggestion.
To disable saving we use Shield to make Elasticsearch read-only for anonymous users.
Tudor
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### Author:  [@Fernando\_Gamboa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fernando_Gamboa)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678/3 "2015-08-20T13:44:15Z")
Hi,
Thank you, your feedback was really helpful.
All the best,
Fernando
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### Author:  [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678/4 "2015-08-20T15:57:07Z")
Hi again, I just found out that removing bundled plugins is not recommended by the Kibana team because there are lots of interdependencies between those and it's not guaranteed to work. It's likely that the next Kibana version won't offer this option, so it might not be a good idea after all.
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### Author:  [@Fernando\_Gamboa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fernando_Gamboa)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678/5 "2015-08-20T20:00:59Z")
Hi,
Indeed, ideally you would like to have a separate interface for users and
other for admin. Hopefully this would be included in the next Kibana
release.
Thank you for your prompt feedback.
All the best,
Carlos Fernando
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/force-hide-settings-button-from-bar-and-disable-save-option-in-kibana-4/27678/6 "2017-07-06T14:14:27Z")