# Kibana cleaning up homepage?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cleaning-up-homepage/161803>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 21, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cleaning-up-homepage/161803 "2018-12-21T07:57:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![fribse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c67d28/32.png) [@fribse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fribse)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cleaning-up-homepage/161803/1 "2018-12-21T07:57:23Z")

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Hi Guys

Now that I've gotten as far as cleaning up the ES, which improved the performance by millions of %, thankyou for the insights into what the problem was!  
Instead of having 35000 shards, we now have \<700, and the ELK is performing great.  
Now I'm a bit more confident in pooring data into it 😉

I'm actually beginning to show it to my developers (we're currently picking up errors from their coding into the ES, so they get a super overview over all the servers, and what the problems might be).  
This also presents my next challenge.  
I want to remove the 'add sample data' etc. from the homepage, and I've looked in the guide, and I don't see where to do that. Currently the homepage shows all sorts of 'nice' things like how to build this and that, and add sample data etc. I really don't want to show that.

I have set it up in the docker-compose, that the dashboard we've created is the one it opens on, so at least that makes it easier for them.

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cleaning-up-homepage/161803/2 "2018-12-22T01:03:39Z")

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There isn't currently an option for disabling sections on the home page like that, but you could write a simple "hack" plugin that injects some css to hide the sections you want to hide. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/packages/kbn-plugin-generator](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/packages/kbn-plugin-generator) will help you get started with a simple plugin

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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:** [January 19, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cleaning-up-homepage/161803/3 "2019-01-19T01:03:39Z")

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