# Kibana Controller widget

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-controller-widget/237665>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 18, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-controller-widget/237665 "2020-06-18T15:18:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![foakboyun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@foakboyun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/foakboyun)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-controller-widget/237665/1 "2020-06-18T15:18:09Z")

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Hi Everybody,  
When I add a controller widget on Kibana. The controller affect all widgets on dashboard. I want to disable some controller for some widgets. Can I do this on Kibana?  
Can you help me? Please.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-controller-widget/237665/2 "2020-07-09T14:20:03Z")

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Hi @foakboyun, welcome to the Elastic community!!

The controls widget is an interface to add filters, and they are applied to all the widgets. Even if you create different index patterns for the same indices, they all get filtered. The only parameter you can change per widget is the timeframe.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/0/80c1a69f6380f6b49dd95f2694bfbd462f278dc9.png)

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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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:** [August 6, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-controller-widget/237665/3 "2020-08-06T14:20:07Z")

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