# How to create a dashboard with action button?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-dashboard-with-action-button/101673>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 25, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-dashboard-with-action-button/101673 "2017-09-25T09:58:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![pascaldergane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@pascaldergane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pascaldergane)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-dashboard-with-action-button/101673/1 "2017-09-25T09:58:21Z")

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Hi all, I'm new with Kibana.  
I would like to migrate my old system using NagVIS to Kibana.  
Do you know how to create a dashboard representing as map your monitored system and display in the dashboard some action buttons allowing to start/stop services?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-dashboard-with-action-button/101673/2 "2017-09-25T19:36:22Z")

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Kibana is more of a general purpose tool, and while you should be able to extend it to do what you're asking about, you'd have to roll it all yourself, which means putting in a fair bit of work.

> representing as map your monitored system

There's nothing that Kibana ships with out of the box that will enable this. You could probably put together using a custom tilemap server and mapping your data to custom coordinates, but that would be a lot of work. Alternatively, you could write a custom visualization plugin that would map documents to a representation of your setup, which would also be a bit of work, but probably less than the tilemap option.

> display in the dashboard some action buttons allowing to start/stop services?

This would also need to be built as a plugin of some sort. You could inject controls into Kibana, or into another kind of custom visualization, but this functionality doesn't exist in Kibana out of the box.

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**Author:** ![pascaldergane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@pascaldergane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pascaldergane)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-dashboard-with-action-button/101673/3 "2017-09-28T11:39:14Z")

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Thank you for your confirmation.

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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:** [October 26, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-dashboard-with-action-button/101673/4 "2017-10-26T11:39:25Z")

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