# Freeze Kibana 4 Dashboard display

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 28, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155 "2015-10-28T14:29:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Gilles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gilles/32/4175_2.png) [@Gilles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gilles)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/1 "2015-10-28T14:29:29Z")

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Hello,  
Is there a way to freeze the setting of a Kibana 4 Dashobard. Currently, whenever I save a Dashboard and reload it, the visualizations have moved around, in some none meaningful way.

Attached the screenshot of the initial Dashboard and once reloaded.

Thanks  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/2/26bac5dd232e4117c7977c995ee069a18cf95499.png)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/2 "2015-10-28T23:45:04Z")

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Exactly what version are you running?

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**Author:** ![Gilles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gilles/32/4175_2.png) [@Gilles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gilles)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/3 "2015-10-29T08:47:43Z")

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Hello, here is the info:  
Version4.1.1  
Build7489  
Commit SHAbd4fcb6

Thanks

Regards

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**Author:** ![Gilles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gilles/32/4175_2.png) [@Gilles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gilles)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/4 "2015-11-06T11:02:24Z")

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Coming back on this issue after a discussion at the elastic-on-tour; I checked the URL of the reorganised dashboard and it does not match the display that I have on my screen, i.e. after I reorganise the graphs on the dashboard, if I take the corresponding URL and paste it in a new tab, the newly displayed dashboard is different.... is there a way to force the changes in the URL to reflect what is displayed?

Thanks

Attached the reorganised screenshot and the new one.

The corresponding URL:  
[http://kibana-preprod.in.weborama.fr/#/dashboard/WCM-preprod?\_g=(refreshInterval:(display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-24h,mode:quick,to:now)](http://kibana-preprod.in.weborama.fr/#/dashboard/WCM-preprod?_g=(refreshInterval:(display:Off,pause:!f,section:0,value:0),time:(from:now-24h,mode:quick,to:now)))&\_a=(filters:!((meta:(disabled:!f,index:%5Blogstash-%5DYYYY.MM.DD,key:mdc.product,negate:!f,value:WCM),query:(match:(mdc.product:(query:WCM,type:phrase))))),panels:!((col:1,id:WCM-Compute-time-evolution,row:10,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:4,id:WCM-compute-time-per-account,row:16,size\_x:2,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:10,id:WCM-deduplicated-count,row:4,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-nb-accounts-treated,row:2,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:10,id:WCM-raw-count,row:2,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:7,id:WCM-Redis-time-evolution,row:10,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:7,id:'WCM-Redis-time-evolution-(read)',row:12,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:7,id:'WCM-Redis-time-evolution-(write)',row:14,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:8,id:WCM-redis-time-per-account,row:16,size\_x:2,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:10,id:WCM-Ring-time-evolution,row:10,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:10,id:'WCM-ring-time-evolution-(read)',row:12,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:10,id:'WCM-ring-time-evolution-(write)',row:14,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-ring-time-per-account,row:22,size\_x:4,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:4,id:'WCM-sql-time-evolution-(write)',row:14,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:4,id:WCM-Top-accounts,row:2,size\_x:6,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-Compute-all,row:7,size\_x:12,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-global-hourly,row:1,size\_x:12,size\_y:1,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-Computation,row:6,size\_x:12,size\_y:1,type:visualization),(col:6,id:'WCM-SQL-(write)-time-per-account',row:16,size\_x:2,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-Hosts,row:4,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-Users-all,row:19,size\_x:4,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:4,id:'WCM-sql-time-evolution-(read)',row:12,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:4,id:WCM-SQL-time-evolution,row:10,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:9,id:WCM-users-huge,row:22,size\_x:4,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:5,id:wcm-Profils-all,row:19,size\_x:4,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:9,id:WCM-Redis-instances,row:19,size\_x:4,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:1,id:WCM-Bloomd-time-evolution,row:12,size\_x:3,size\_y:2,type:visualization),(col:10,id:WCM-Bloomd-time-per-accounts,row:16,size\_x:2,size\_y:3,type:visualization),(col:4,id:WCM-Countries,row:4,size\_x:6,size\_y:2,type:visualization)),query:(query\_string:(analyze\_wildcard:!t,query:'\*wcm')),title:'WCM%20preprod')

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**Author:** ![Gilles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gilles/32/4175_2.png) [@Gilles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gilles)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/5 "2015-11-13T17:21:31Z")

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Anybody else had this issue??

Thanks, any help is welcome

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**Author:** ![ankmathur14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@ankmathur14](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ankmathur14)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/6 "2016-03-02T07:29:32Z")

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Did you solve this issue ?  
I am having the same problem.  
Each time i visit my dashboard, all of the visualizations get displaced.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/7 "2016-03-02T09:04:24Z")

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Take a look at [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/2138](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/2138)

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**Author:** ![Gilles](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gilles/32/4175_2.png) [@Gilles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gilles)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/8 "2016-03-02T16:35:33Z")

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Hello,  
Nope, did not get a global resolution from ELS but as mentioned in warkolm link, I reorganized manually the JSON graphs and it did the trick.

Cheers

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155/9 "2017-07-06T14:00:34Z")

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