# How to disable Visual Builder in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-visual-builder-in-kibana/132700>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 21, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-visual-builder-in-kibana/132700 "2018-05-21T21:53:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mlehotsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mlehotsky/32/31436_2.png) [@mlehotsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mlehotsky)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-visual-builder-in-kibana/132700/1 "2018-05-21T21:53:41Z")

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Hi Kibana community,

How can I disable Visual Builder in Kibana 5.6.5? It is bringing down Elasticsearch (probably due to large amount of data) and we want to temporarily disable it while we investigate the root cause.

Thank you for your help in advance!

-Michal

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**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-visual-builder-in-kibana/132700/3 "2018-05-22T15:29:45Z")

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`metrics.enabled: false` in the kibana yaml should work

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**Author:** ![mlehotsky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mlehotsky/32/31436_2.png) [@mlehotsky](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mlehotsky)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-visual-builder-in-kibana/132700/4 "2018-05-22T21:05:18Z")

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It worked! Thank you Peter!

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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:** [June 19, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-visual-builder-in-kibana/132700/5 "2018-06-19T21:05:25Z")

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