# How do I logout of Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 7, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015 "2022-03-07T21:40:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![codewriterguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/codewriterguy/32/113440_2.png) [@codewriterguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codewriterguy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/1 "2022-03-07T21:40:32Z")
I know this is incredibly basic and I'm not trolling, I can't find a logout button ---
**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 7, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/2 "2022-03-07T21:42:47Z")
What version are you on? 7.X, there's a user icon in the top right corner, click that and then logout. ---
**Author:** ![codewriterguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/codewriterguy/32/113440_2.png) [@codewriterguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codewriterguy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/3 "2022-03-07T21:53:44Z")
Thank you warkolm! This is for a 7.17 instance at work. On my local (also 7.17) I do see the icon ![Screen Shot 2022-03-07 at 3.52.03 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/e/7e78dcd2f5969555308cf8f716c39b34899229e2.png) On the work instance I don't ![Screen Shot 2022-03-07 at 3.52.31 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/0/d03ef61d5b20287e8a8685f2f66a6dc2fe4530ae.png) Thought I was missing something thank you for pointing that out for me ---
**Author:** ![codewriterguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/codewriterguy/32/113440_2.png) [@codewriterguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codewriterguy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/4 "2022-03-07T21:54:34Z")
I might just have to check with our ops team to figure it out ---
**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 7, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/5 "2022-03-07T21:55:48Z")
Open up your browser's dev tools and see if there's anything there. ---
**Author:** ![codewriterguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/codewriterguy/32/113440_2.png) [@codewriterguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codewriterguy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/6 "2022-03-07T22:03:07Z")
Yeah there's definitely an extra element in the local instance that's not there in the shared instance ![Screen Shot 2022-03-07 at 4.01.38 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/0/00e27755d7d57e44ef98d999397925562db57215.png) ![Screen Shot 2022-03-07 at 4.02.30 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/3/73da5903bd93483b90db330063c733f071dd1482.png) Think maybe it's a security setting? ---
**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 7, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/7 "2022-03-07T22:06:36Z")
Yeah that's what I was thinking as well. What sort of of auth does Elasticsearch use, AD/LDAP/other? I am not 100% sure how Kibana works with that in play, but in an instance we use internally that has Okta auth, I have a logout button. ---
**Author:** ![codewriterguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/codewriterguy/32/113440_2.png) [@codewriterguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codewriterguy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/8 "2022-03-07T22:37:41Z")
The instance isn't set up with managed accounts, the accounts are shared but manually created. Sorry I don't have much further info I feel I should press my ops team now to give me answers 😃 thanks for all the help ---
**Author:** ![codewriterguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/codewriterguy/32/113440_2.png) [@codewriterguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/codewriterguy)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/9 "2022-03-10T23:18:39Z")
We resolved the issue. The account button was not visible because X-Pack Security was not enabled yet ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-logout-of-kibana/299015/10 "2022-04-07T23:19:15Z")
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