# How I can hide the Elastic Search index in Kibana GUI

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-i-can-hide-the-elastic-search-index-in-kibana-gui/208003>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 15, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-i-can-hide-the-elastic-search-index-in-kibana-gui/208003 "2019-11-15T07:15:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eswari\_Kallakuri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eswari_kallakuri/32/48340_2.png) [@Eswari\_Kallakuri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eswari_Kallakuri)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-i-can-hide-the-elastic-search-index-in-kibana-gui/208003/1 "2019-11-15T07:15:50Z")

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I am using Elastic Search 7.3.0 version.  
How I can hide the Elastic Search index in Kibana?

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**Author:** ![philippkahr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philippkahr/32/100137_2.png) [@philippkahr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/philippkahr)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-i-can-hide-the-elastic-search-index-in-kibana-gui/208003/2 "2019-11-15T07:41:30Z")

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Hi,

first of all, why would you want to do that? Where do you want to hide the index? Do you have a screenshot? There are so many places where you see the index.

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**Author:** ![Eswari\_Kallakuri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eswari_kallakuri/32/48340_2.png) [@Eswari\_Kallakuri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eswari_Kallakuri)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-i-can-hide-the-elastic-search-index-in-kibana-gui/208003/3 "2019-11-15T09:32:57Z")

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Hi,  
Before Started working with Elastic Search, I wanted to plot a default welcome dashboard, that needs any index to be created. Creating the index only to plot default dashboard. I don't want to show this index, because there is no use.  
Index should be hidden everywhere in Kibana GUI. Is it possible to do that?

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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:** [December 13, 2019, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-i-can-hide-the-elastic-search-index-in-kibana-gui/208003/4 "2019-12-13T09:35:36Z")

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