# How can I export visualizations without exposing sensative data within kibana? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [December 16, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-export-visualizations-without-exposing-sensative-data-within-kibana/37371 "2015-12-16T15:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chris\_Salvi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chris_salvi/32/6669_2.png) [@Chris\_Salvi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Salvi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-export-visualizations-without-exposing-sensative-data-within-kibana/37371/1 "2015-12-16T15:56:53Z")
I want to build a real-time dashboard based on data I have stored within Elasticsearch, but my colleague is wary of this because he doesnt want to expose all the data within kibana. Is there a way to safely isolate the visualization exported without exposing all the raw data? Or is there another best practice to conduct such a project? Thanks~ ---
**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:** [December 17, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-export-visualizations-without-exposing-sensative-data-within-kibana/37371/2 "2015-12-17T03:42:23Z")
Currently, sort of. You can use Shield to provide restrictions to the underlying data, so that various people can only see some of it. But you cannot lock down Kibana at the moment. ---
**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, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-export-visualizations-without-exposing-sensative-data-within-kibana/37371/3 "2017-07-06T14:06:23Z")