# How to make custom sidebar tabs in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-custom-sidebar-tabs-in-kibana/66052>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-custom-sidebar-tabs-in-kibana/66052 "2016-11-15T04:20:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![elasticheart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticheart/32/65189_2.png) [@elasticheart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticheart)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-custom-sidebar-tabs-in-kibana/66052/1 "2016-11-15T04:20:22Z")

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Hi,

In Kibana 5, there are lots of tabs with icons in the blue sidebar like Discover, Timelion etc. When I installed X-Pack, lot of new tabs came. I would like to know if its possible to make custom tabs in sidebar, which is targeting to, say, a dashboard. If I have a dashboard, can I make a custom side panel link for that?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-custom-sidebar-tabs-in-kibana/66052/2 "2016-11-15T04:45:04Z")

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That's a pretty cool idea, even having a drawer that expands out that contains a tree of dashboards.

Might be worth raising a feature request for this 🙂

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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:** [December 13, 2016, 4:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-custom-sidebar-tabs-in-kibana/66052/3 "2016-12-13T04:46:03Z")

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