Kibana and Tribe Nodes

I have tribe node which is connected to two ES clusters. I would like to visualize both clusters as one in kibana so I assumed that running kibana on my tribe node would be the solution. However, there seems to be errors (unable to create .kibana index) when I try to start kibana. I'd appreciate any help. Thank you.

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Kibana needs to be able to create the .kibana index if it doesn't exist, and tribe nodes don't allow index creation. https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/15620 is an open issue that may help when implemented.

https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3114 has some discussion on possible workarounds