# How to set the default application

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-default-application/32310>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 15, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-default-application/32310 "2015-10-15T18:44:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bier)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-default-application/32310/1 "2015-10-15T18:44:18Z")

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I tried to change the kibana.defaultAppId to  
kibana.defaultAppId: "dashboard" or "dashboard/mysaveddashboard" but it doesnt seem to work, it always loads Discover.

How do i change the default application?

Using Kibana 4.2.0-beta2

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 3:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-default-application/32310/2 "2015-10-19T03:57:12Z")

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Thanks for reporting - I can confirm that this seems to be a problem in 4.2-beta2. Just filed an issue, stay tuned: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5137](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5137)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-default-application/32310/3 "2017-07-06T14:11:06Z")

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