# Hack kibana.index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hack-kibana-index/77291>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 3, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hack-kibana-index/77291 "2017-03-03T09:43:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![whoami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9a28c/32.png) [@whoami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whoami)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hack-kibana-index/77291/1 "2017-03-03T09:43:58Z")

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any way that I can dynamically tell kibana use which index as `kibana.index`

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hack-kibana-index/77291/2 "2017-03-03T17:28:09Z")

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Not dynamically. It's in the config file (which means it could also be specified as a command line parameter) and requires a Kibana restart.

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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:** [March 31, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hack-kibana-index/77291/3 "2017-03-31T17:28:17Z")

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