# Is it possible to use our own custom built kibana in Elastic Cloud?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-our-own-custom-built-kibana-in-elastic-cloud/314233>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 12, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-our-own-custom-built-kibana-in-elastic-cloud/314233 "2022-09-12T21:11:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kiru\_Sengal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kiru_sengal/32/104141_2.png) [@Kiru\_Sengal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kiru_Sengal)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-our-own-custom-built-kibana-in-elastic-cloud/314233/1 "2022-09-12T21:11:55Z")

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Hi,

Can someone point me to documentation for how we can use a custom built kibana in Elastic Cloud?  
We are building our own tweaked kibana in Gitlab Cloud, and don't mind building any type of container if necessary.

Thanks!

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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:** [September 12, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-our-own-custom-built-kibana-in-elastic-cloud/314233/2 "2022-09-12T21:50:32Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

No, you cannot do this sorry.

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**Author:** ![bshaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c2a13f/32.png) [@bshaw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bshaw)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-our-own-custom-built-kibana-in-elastic-cloud/314233/3 "2022-09-13T13:25:55Z")

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What you might be able to do however, is stand up your own version of Kibana on an ECS host or in Amazon's container service and just configure it to point to your Elasticsearch instance in your Elastic Cloud.

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-our-own-custom-built-kibana-in-elastic-cloud/314233/4 "2022-09-13T13:38:34Z")

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> [@bshaw](#):
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> What you might be able to do however, is stand up your own version of Kibana on an ECS host or in Amazon's container service and just configure it to point to your Elasticsearch instance in your Elastic Cloud.

Actually no you can not do that anymore That was supported up to 7.x but now I understand in 8.x that is not supported. It has to do with the ability of assigning a different `.kibana` index which is no longer supported.

What you can do and it is not trivial is set up your own kibans plus elasticsearch node and then configure cross cluster search between your self. Managed cluster and your your Elastic Cloud cluster.

This is quite difficult to set up but it does work.

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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 11, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-use-our-own-custom-built-kibana-in-elastic-cloud/314233/5 "2022-10-11T13:39:11Z")

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