# How to add a button in kibana 7.8.1 dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 27, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402 "2020-10-27T08:46:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abhi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@Abhi6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhi6)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/1 "2020-10-27T08:46:03Z")

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Is there any way to add a button to kibana dashboard

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/2 "2020-10-27T09:14:38Z")

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It depends strongly on what the button should do

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**Author:** ![Abhi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@Abhi6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhi6)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/3 "2020-10-27T09:16:09Z")

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download button which will download data into csv format just like we have the option in inspect option

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/4 "2020-10-27T09:20:45Z")

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I see - this is not possible, but feel free to raise a feature request here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature\_request.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md)

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**Author:** ![Abhi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@Abhi6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhi6)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/5 "2020-10-27T09:35:17Z")

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Okay Thanks !!!can I add any custom link on button .Is there any way to achieve it.

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2020, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/6 "2020-10-27T18:01:41Z")

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By using the "Markdown" visualization type you can but arbitrary links on a dashboard.

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**Author:** ![Abhi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@Abhi6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhi6)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/7 "2020-10-28T09:06:04Z")

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Thanks man !!

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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:** [November 25, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-add-a-button-in-kibana-7-8-1-dashboard/253402/8 "2020-11-25T09:06:14Z")

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