# \[Kibana 7.2\] Insert local image on a markdown visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-2-insert-local-image-on-a-markdown-visualization/192467>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 26, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-2-insert-local-image-on-a-markdown-visualization/192467 "2019-07-26T14:53:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-2-insert-local-image-on-a-markdown-visualization/192467/2 "2019-07-29T18:39:52Z")

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Images have to be served by a URL. Something like `![My-Image](https://example.com/image.png)`.

There is a suggestion here that may help.

> [@Load image with Markdown in Dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-image-with-markdown-in-dashboard/160174/2):
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> file//usr/share/kibana/src/ui/public/image/image.png Unless you can open that file like that from your browser (and I would be really surprised if you could), it's not going to work. The path you put in there needs to load on its own for it to work right. src/ui/public isn't really the right place to drop files, that's where plugin code goes, and static files are not served from that path. In fact, I don't think there's any path that Kibana will serve static assets from. You'll need some oth…

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