# How to point to a local images in Markdown

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-to-a-local-images-in-markdown/147730>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-to-a-local-images-in-markdown/147730 "2018-09-07T14:25:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![martb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/martb/32/78185_2.png) [@martb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/martb)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-to-a-local-images-in-markdown/147730/1 "2018-09-07T14:25:07Z")

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Hi,

v 6.2.2 open source instance.

Using markdown I'm currently pointing the images on my dashboard to an URL i.e ![](https://site.com/image.png?raw=true?raw=true)

Has anyone managed to point to a local path on the actually Kibana server?

Would appreciate some guidance

Thanks

Martin

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-to-a-local-images-in-markdown/147730/2 "2018-09-07T17:53:55Z")

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Hi there, if you have a plugin with the image inside of the plugin's `public` directory, then you can use this syntax to embed the image:

```auto
![Your image](/plugins/{your plugin ID}/image.png)

```

Substitute "image.png" with whatever the name of the file is, of course. Note that the plugin ID is defined by the plugin's root `index.js` file, and is _not_ the name of the plugin folder.

Hope this helps,  
CJ

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**Author:** ![martb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/martb/32/78185_2.png) [@martb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/martb)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-to-a-local-images-in-markdown/147730/3 "2018-09-10T09:25:58Z")

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Hi Cj

Thanks for the quick reply. What would the syntex be if you are not using plugins and simply want to point to a image file in a local folder?

thanks

Martin

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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 8, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-point-to-a-local-images-in-markdown/147730/4 "2018-10-08T09:25:59Z")

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