# Kibana Drilldown - URL auth **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 23, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drilldown-url-auth/284950 "2021-09-23T00:18:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnwood/32/78918_2.png) [@johnwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnwood)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drilldown-url-auth/284950/1 "2021-09-23T00:18:54Z")
Hi Kibana-brains, I am looking at using the URL drilldown in kibana to kick off some actions in an external site. I need to authenticate/authorise these calls in the external system and was wondering if, assuming we have a shared ID Provider, will kibana send the token (eg JWT) in the auth header to the external system when doing a URL drilldown? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![dosant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dosant/32/64489_2.png) [@dosant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dosant)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drilldown-url-auth/284950/2 "2021-09-23T09:23:27Z")
URL drilldown is simply a redirect to a URL: just like if you'd copy and paste a URL into your browser navbar. If you are already authenticated at the destination website then it could work without a need to authenticate again. > will kibana send the token (eg JWT) in the auth header to the external system when doing a URL drilldown? No, it won't. We have a feature request for [Custom dashboard API actions](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/79023) that should cover something like this in the future. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-drilldown-url-auth/284950/3 "2021-10-21T09:24:19Z")
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