# Kibana role to just view dashboards and visualizations **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 13, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-role-to-just-view-dashboards-and-visualizations/71540 "2017-01-13T16:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mc1392](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@mc1392](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mc1392)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-role-to-just-view-dashboards-and-visualizations/71540/1 "2017-01-13T16:07:23Z")
How do I create a user that can ONLY view dashboards and visualizations? Seems the only thing that works, for users besides myself (admin), is SUPERUSER. I don't want to do that, right? ---
**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-role-to-just-view-dashboards-and-visualizations/71540/2 "2017-01-13T21:26:26Z")
The built in `kibana_user` role is a good starting point which you should be able to modify to do what you want. Copy that role, and then remove everything other than the read permission from the `.kibana` index. That _should_ do the trick. The UI won't change, Kibana itself doesn't currently support fine grained controls, but it should prevent users from creating/modifying index-patterns, dashboards, visualizations and saved searches. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-role-to-just-view-dashboards-and-visualizations/71540/3 "2017-02-10T21:26:44Z")
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