# How to select default tenant as "GLOBAL" in KIbana Dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-select-default-tenant-as-global-in-kibana-dashboard/251079>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 6, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-select-default-tenant-as-global-in-kibana-dashboard/251079 "2020-10-06T07:12:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinay\_rathore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vinay_rathore/32/49541_2.png) [@vinay\_rathore](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinay_rathore)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-select-default-tenant-as-global-in-kibana-dashboard/251079/1 "2020-10-06T07:12:01Z")

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Hello,

We have 2 tenants currently in Kibana Dashboard, Private and Global in Kibana dashboard which is hosted by aws.

Every time i login the dashboard opens with Private as tenant by default.  
Is there a way i can configure the default tenant to GLOBAL? so when i login to kibana it opens as GLOBAL tenant. If yes please share.

FYI -  
I found some reference related to this in

> **[Kibana Multi-Tenancy](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/security/access-control/multi-tenancy/)**
>
> Documentation for Open Distro for Elasticsearch, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.

It says we need to changes to kibana.yml for multitenancy changes.

Q1. I'm not sure where Kibana.yml is kept so i can make changes, is it handled by AWS?  
Q2. Also if possible Kindly share what to change in Kibana.yml if its possible though this or any other approach.

Thanks in Adv

 ![Tenant](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/3/c3e2339bcb0e7f40b8ce32bc3c09af4f283d154a.png)

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**Author:** ![Wolfram\_Haussig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfram_haussig/32/70528_2.png) [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-select-default-tenant-as-global-in-kibana-dashboard/251079/2 "2020-10-06T07:40:44Z")

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Hi,

Opendistro has its own forum here: [https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/](https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/)

This might be the better place to ask your question.

Best regards  
Wolfram

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**Author:** ![t.vignesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/t.vignesh/32/60668_2.png) [@t.vignesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/t.vignesh)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-select-default-tenant-as-global-in-kibana-dashboard/251079/3 "2020-10-11T14:59:07Z")

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Hi @vinay_rathore,  
In my opinion, there is no direct option. Kibana defaults to private tenant. But, you may try this option if private tenancy is no longer required for users.

In Kibana.yml, set the below to disable private tenancy which will default to only available tenancy (Global) here.

```auto
opendistro_security.multitenancy.tenants.enable_private: true

```

In most linux versions, kibana.yml location will be usually found in

```auto
/etc/kibana/
/usr/share/kibana/
If installed via tarball, <install path>/config.. ex: /opt/kibana/config/

```

For more details on tenancy, pls refer the below link:

> **[Not able to view index patterns created by another user](https://discuss.opendistrocommunity.dev/t/not-able-to-view-index-patterns-created-by-another-user/3611)**
>
> Hello Everyone , I have an issue with Kibana index patterns . I am setting up opendistro for Kibana . Logged in with “admin” account , created few index patterns and imported the dashboards and visualizations from Old Kibana. All works perfectly...

@Wolfram_Haussig, Agree with you. Was little curious and hence replied to this thread 🙂

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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:** [November 8, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-select-default-tenant-as-global-in-kibana-dashboard/251079/4 "2020-11-08T14:59:10Z")

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