# Kibana - Is there such a thing as a "permanent filter"?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-permanent-filter/23501
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 30, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-permanent-filter/23501 "2015-04-30T17:22:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Ruslander](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Ruslander)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-permanent-filter/23501/1 "2015-04-30T17:22:54Z")
I have a system that multiple users use. I want to make a single Kibana
dashboard that the users could pull up, but it would only show them their
own data, not anyone elses. I think I can do this by using the templated
dashboards and establishing a filter that would take their username in the
URL, but then an adept user could simply remove the filter on the dashboard
and see the data of all the users combined. Is there a way to make a
"permanent filter" or make a filter non-removable? Thanks!
- Andrew
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-permanent-filter/23501/2 "2015-04-30T21:12:01Z")
Not at this stage, this is something that is being worked on for future
releases.
On 1 May 2015 at 03:22, Andrew Ruslander [andrew.ruslander@gmail.com](mailto:andrew.ruslander@gmail.com) wrote:
> I have a system that multiple users use. I want to make a single Kibana
> dashboard that the users could pull up, but it would only show them their
> own data, not anyone elses. I think I can do this by using the templated
> dashboards and establishing a filter that would take their username in the
> URL, but then an adept user could simply remove the filter on the dashboard
> and see the data of all the users combined. Is there a way to make a
> "permanent filter" or make a filter non-removable? Thanks!
>
> - Andrew
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-permanent-filter/23501/3 "2017-07-06T00:16:31Z")