# Howto distinguish Kibana Instances visually
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-distinguish-kibana-instances-visually/127924
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 13, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-distinguish-kibana-instances-visually/127924 "2018-04-13T07:52:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kaem2111](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaem2111)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-distinguish-kibana-instances-visually/127924/1 "2018-04-13T07:52:25Z")
Hello,
is there a configuration option (navigator background color, own logo or other) to distinguish a Kibana instance for e.g. test system from prod system?
I specified server.name, but couldn't find it on the display.
I need a visual separation to avoid doing things on the wrong target system.
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### Author:  [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-distinguish-kibana-instances-visually/127924/2 "2018-04-13T16:12:54Z")
hi @kaem2111,
that's an interesting request. Usually, customers modify the look&feel of Kibana by modifying the CSS. It's somewhat of a hack, but it's done fairly frequently. You might start here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/eb22e373f5ab7b72e14daee01b511af30fcd7336/src/ui/public/styles/base.less](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/eb22e373f5ab7b72e14daee01b511af30fcd7336/src/ui/public/styles/base.less)
You could also submit an enhancement request here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new).
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### Author:  [@kaem2111](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaem2111)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-distinguish-kibana-instances-visually/127924/3 "2018-04-17T09:50:25Z")
Hi Thomas,
Thx for the advice, I changed background-color for the Kibana logo, that works for me.
I believe branding will come in the next years anyway, so no enhancement request from my side now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/howto-distinguish-kibana-instances-visually/127924/4 "2018-05-15T09:50:32Z")
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