# How to hide predefined visualization/dashboard templates?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-predefined-visualization-dashboard-templates/146682>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-predefined-visualization-dashboard-templates/146682 "2018-08-30T10:57:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![caub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/caub/32/33783_2.png) [@caub](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/caub)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-predefined-visualization-dashboard-templates/146682/1 "2018-08-30T10:57:33Z")

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Basically the vast majority of them are not useful to me

I'd like to make the visualize and dashboard view a bit less crowdy, so for example at least hiding/removing all the apache2 templates

 ![2018-08-30-125643_1399x914_scrot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/d/6d0df0c298c0acbc18099589edb31b37a11768ec.png)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-predefined-visualization-dashboard-templates/146682/2 "2018-08-30T12:25:01Z")

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Hey @caub,

If you don't want the pre-defined visualizations/dashboards, you are free to remove them from your installation. A trash can icon appears when you select one or more of them:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/6/360bb8d17fbfaac69fba7bccd69106d2bd16d75e.png)

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**Author:** ![caub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/caub/32/33783_2.png) [@caub](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/caub)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-predefined-visualization-dashboard-templates/146682/3 "2018-08-30T12:26:48Z")

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yes thanks, but I'd prefer to avoid deleting them manually and rather do it from a config

I deploy the elastic stack from docker, and sometimes I clear everything in test/dev mode

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-predefined-visualization-dashboard-templates/146682/4 "2018-08-30T12:32:55Z")

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Sorry, I understand now.

It looks like you are using at least Filebeat within your stack. Filebeat's [configuration](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-reference-yml.html) allows you to disable loading the sample dashboards by setting

```auto
setup.dashboards.enabled: false

```

in your filebeat yml configuration.

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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:** [September 27, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-hide-predefined-visualization-dashboard-templates/146682/5 "2018-09-27T12:32:57Z")

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