# Kibana 3 - Custom Panels **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [February 15, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-custom-panels/41791 "2016-02-15T13:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arul\_Pragasam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arul_pragasam/32/14063_2.png) [@Arul\_Pragasam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arul_Pragasam)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-custom-panels/41791/1 "2016-02-15T13:34:27Z")
We currently use Kibana 3 and would like to explore the possibilities to write customized panels to cater our usecase (say like histogram using values or stacked bar chart). Are there any documents/guides available targetting this topic? Thanks Arul ---
**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:** [February 15, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-custom-panels/41791/2 "2016-02-15T15:56:18Z")
Nope, KB3 is deprecated now too so there's unlikely to be any. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-custom-panels/41791/3 "2016-02-15T16:01:33Z")
There are no docs from Elastic, but there are many community resources if you Google. Also, in Kibana 3, the process is quite simple -- go to [kibana\_dir]/app/panels, copy one of the folders representing one of the built-in panels, and use it as a template. As Mark mentioned, from the support perspective Kibana 3 is now deprecated and you may want to consider basing your deployment on Kibana 4. Kibana 4 extensibility goes way beyond custom panels, as it has a true plugin interface. ---
**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, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-custom-panels/41791/4 "2017-07-06T14:02:14Z")