# How to configure Kibana.yml to create custom region maps?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 6, 2019, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-kibana-yml-to-create-custom-region-maps/206778 "2019-11-06T11:05:16Z")\
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My kibana.yml file. What am I doing wrong here?

# Kibana is served by a back end server. This setting specifies the port to use.

server.port: 5601

# Specifies the address to which the Kibana server will bind. IP addresses and host names are both valid values.

# The default is 'localhost', which usually means remote machines will not be able to connect.

# To allow connections from remote users, set this parameter to a non-loopback address.

server.host: "localhost"

# Enables you to specify a path to mount Kibana at if you are running behind a proxy.

# Use the `server.rewriteBasePath` setting to tell Kibana if it should remove the basePath

# from requests it receives, and to prevent a deprecation warning at startup.

# This setting cannot end in a slash.

server.basePath: ""

# Specifies whether Kibana should rewrite requests that are prefixed with

# `server.basePath` or require that they are rewritten by your reverse proxy.

# This setting was effectively always `false` before Kibana 6.3 and will

# default to `true` starting in Kibana 7.0.

server.rewriteBasePath: false

# The maximum payload size in bytes for incoming server requests.

server.maxPayloadBytes: 1048576

# The Kibana server's name. This is used for display purposes.

server.name: "your-hostname"

# The URLs of the Elasticsearch instances to use for all your queries.

elasticsearch.hosts: ["[http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)"]

# When this setting's value is true Kibana uses the hostname specified in the server.host

# setting. When the value of this setting is false, Kibana uses the hostname of the host

# that connects to this Kibana instance.

elasticsearch.preserveHost: true

# Kibana uses an index in Elasticsearch to store saved searches, visualizations and

# dashboards. Kibana creates a new index if the index doesn't already exist.

kibana.index: ".kibana"

# The default application to load.

kibana.defaultAppId: "home"

# If your Elasticsearch is protected with basic authentication, these settings provide

# the username and password that the Kibana server uses to perform maintenance on the Kibana

# index at startup. Your Kibana users still need to authenticate with Elasticsearch, which

# is proxied through the Kibana server.

elasticsearch.username: "kibana"  
elasticsearch.password: "pass"

# Enables SSL and paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and SSL key files, respectively.

# These settings enable SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana server to the browser.

server.ssl.enabled: false  
server.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/server.crt  
server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key

# Optional settings that provide the paths to the PEM-format SSL certificate and key files.

# These files validate that your Elasticsearch backend uses the same key files.

elasticsearch.ssl.certificate: /path/to/your/client.crt  
elasticsearch.ssl.key: /path/to/your/client.key

# Optional setting that enables you to specify a path to the PEM file for the certificate

# authority for your Elasticsearch instance.

elasticsearch.ssl.certificateAuthorities: ["/path/to/your/CA.pem"]

# To disregard the validity of SSL certificates, change this setting's value to 'none'.

elasticsearch.ssl.verificationMode: full

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch to respond to pings. Defaults to the value of

# the elasticsearch.requestTimeout setting.

elasticsearch.pingTimeout: 1500

# Time in milliseconds to wait for responses from the back end or Elasticsearch. This value

# must be a positive integer.

elasticsearch.requestTimeout: 30000

# List of Kibana client-side headers to send to Elasticsearch. To send _no_ client-side

# headers, set this value to (an empty list).

elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist: [authorization]

# Header names and values that are sent to Elasticsearch. Any custom headers cannot be overwritten

# by client-side headers, regardless of the elasticsearch.requestHeadersWhitelist configuration.

elasticsearch.customHeaders: {}

# Time in milliseconds for Elasticsearch to wait for responses from shards. Set to 0 to disable.

elasticsearch.shardTimeout: 30000

# Time in milliseconds to wait for Elasticsearch at Kibana startup before retrying.

elasticsearch.startupTimeout: 5000

# Logs queries sent to Elasticsearch. Requires logging.verbose set to true.

elasticsearch.logQueries: false

# Specifies the path where Kibana creates the process ID file.

pid.file: /var/run/kibana.pid

# Enables you specify a file where Kibana stores log output.

logging.dest: stdout

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output.

logging.silent: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to suppress all logging output other than error messages.

logging.quiet: false

# Set the value of this setting to true to log all events, including system usage information

# and all requests.

logging.verbose: false

# Set the interval in milliseconds to sample system and process performance

# metrics. Minimum is 100ms. Defaults to 5000.

ops.interval: 5000

# Specifies locale to be used for all localizable strings, dates and number formats.

# Supported languages are the following: English - en , by default , Chinese - zh-CN .

i18n.locale: "en"

server.cors : true  
server.cors.origin: "\*"

# Custom Region Maps

regionmap:  
layers:  
- name: "UK Major Cities and Towns"  
url: "[http://localhost:8000/Major\_Towns\_and\_Cities.geojson](http://localhost:8000/Major_Towns_and_Cities.geojson)"  
fields:  
- name: "tcity15nm"  
description: "City Name"

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