# Is there anyway to customize dashboard ui with plugin

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anyway-to-customize-dashboard-ui-with-plugin/116677
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anyway-to-customize-dashboard-ui-with-plugin/116677 "2018-01-23T13:33:32Z")
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### Author: ![596375269](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/e495f1/32.png) [@596375269](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/596375269)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anyway-to-customize-dashboard-ui-with-plugin/116677/1 "2018-01-23T13:33:33Z")

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as mentioned in title, is it possible?

or hard code the kibana source code is the only way?

thanks

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### Author: ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anyway-to-customize-dashboard-ui-with-plugin/116677/2 "2018-01-23T13:38:37Z")

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i guess that all depends on what kind of customization are you looking for

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### Author: ![596375269](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/e495f1/32.png) [@596375269](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/596375269)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anyway-to-customize-dashboard-ui-with-plugin/116677/3 "2018-01-23T13:55:05Z")

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> [@ppisljar](#):
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> i guess that all depends on what kind of customization are you looking for

thanks your reply

for example  
the customized css file, layout the page elements. for the existing dashboard or visualize module

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### Author: ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anyway-to-customize-dashboard-ui-with-plugin/116677/4 "2018-01-23T13:57:14Z")

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i am guessing that would be possible thru plugins, however you will need to dig in on your own and will require quite some work to familiarize yourself with kibana source code.

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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: [February 20, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-anyway-to-customize-dashboard-ui-with-plugin/116677/5 "2018-02-20T13:57:40Z")

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