# Get current Kibana settings **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [June 21, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775 "2022-06-21T15:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ben-sec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ben-sec/32/107365_2.png) [@ben-sec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ben-sec)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775/1 "2022-06-21T15:36:57Z")
Hello! How can I get the current Kibana (v7.17.4) settings (like elasticsearch.requestTimeout and elasticsearch.shardTimeout) to verify if my settings in kibana.yml are actually working? Thanks in advance! Cheers, Ben ---
**Author:** ![majagrubic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/majagrubic/32/74459_2.png) [@majagrubic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/majagrubic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775/2 "2022-06-22T12:17:29Z")
Hi, can you clarify your question a bit? Settings from `kibana.yml` are picked up on the server (re)staet. Where are you running Kibana? The location of this file differs depending on how you installed Kibana. For example, if you installed Kibana from an archive distribution (`.tar.gz` or `.zip` ), by default it is in `$KIBANA_HOME/config` . With package distributions (Debian or RPM), it is in `/etc/kibana` . On Cloud, you can select your deployment, then under `Kibana` you will have `Edit user settings` option. ---
**Author:** ![ben-sec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ben-sec/32/107365_2.png) [@ben-sec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ben-sec)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775/3 "2022-06-22T13:16:08Z")
Hi Maja, I'm running Kibana and Elasticsearch as part of Security Onion (therefore the place of kibana.yml differs) and I'm only looking for the right command to get the current settings displayed in the Kibana console. Isn't that possible? Cheers, Ben ---
**Author:** ![majagrubic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/majagrubic/32/74459_2.png) [@majagrubic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/majagrubic)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775/4 "2022-06-22T13:27:16Z")
You can get the current settings with `curl` or a browser request: `:/api/kibana/settings`. But note that the settings are not the same as the content of `kibana.yml`. You cannot access content of `kibana.yml` in any other way then inspecting the file directly. ---
**Author:** ![ben-sec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ben-sec/32/107365_2.png) [@ben-sec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ben-sec)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775/5 "2022-06-22T13:39:59Z")
Hmm, I get the following alert and increased the timeout values, without success. I have no clue what the root cause of these timeouts is, since I have no errors in my logs: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/e/6e1ef0408cd899358d13183b0fc7f7abad85f437.png) Ideas how to solve that? ---
**Author:** ![ben-sec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ben-sec/32/107365_2.png) [@ben-sec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ben-sec)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775/6 "2022-06-28T12:37:00Z")
No more ideas? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-current-kibana-settings/307775/7 "2022-07-26T12:37:43Z")
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