# Kibana minimalistic view

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-minimalistic-view/198628>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 9, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-minimalistic-view/198628 "2019-09-09T08:13:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![mortenb123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mortenb123/32/37227_2.png) [@mortenb123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mortenb123)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-minimalistic-view/198628/1 "2019-09-09T08:13:33Z")

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We have an unstructured ELK stack with 100s of fields, hosts and types.

I like to create a minimalistic view where user can only choose a few fields and hosts and keep all the rest hidden away. Not by giving the long complex url to what to search.

Can this be done by adding a specific user and roles in the free version v7.3 where we now have users and roles?

I've earlier used elastics restapi directly with a simple webservice.

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-minimalistic-view/198628/2 "2019-09-11T04:45:25Z")

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> [@mortenb123](#):
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> K

Yes, for sure you can use Users and Roles and create a specific user with an associated role only to access few fields as defined

> **[Defining roles | Elastic Stack Overview \[7.4\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/defining-roles.html)**

You can give access to only specific indices as defined:

> **[Security privileges | Elastic Stack Overview \[7.4\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack-overview/current/security-privileges.html#privileges-list-indices)**

Thanks and let us know how we can help further,  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![mortenb123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mortenb123/32/37227_2.png) [@mortenb123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mortenb123)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-minimalistic-view/198628/3 "2019-09-11T15:53:04Z")

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Thanks rashmi, We will try it out.

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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:** [October 9, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-minimalistic-view/198628/4 "2019-10-09T15:53:07Z")

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