# Kibana - Tie an index to a dashboard or Vizualization **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [July 29, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tie-an-index-to-a-dashboard-or-vizualization/26528 "2015-07-29T21:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bdunbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tie-an-index-to-a-dashboard-or-vizualization/26528/1 "2015-07-29T21:10:53Z")
Is there a way to tie a specific index to a dashboard or visualization? I have, as an example, indices [logstash]2015.01.DD {logstash}2015.02.DD I build visualizations against these searches, put them into a dash, then share the dashboard as a web link. How do I ensure the preferred index goes along for the ride, so to speak? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tie-an-index-to-a-dashboard-or-vizualization/26528/2 "2015-07-29T22:50:09Z")
This seems pretty familiar to [Visualization tied to an absolute date-range](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-tied-to-an-absolute-date-range/26519) ---
**Author:** ![bdunbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tie-an-index-to-a-dashboard-or-vizualization/26528/3 "2015-07-30T00:03:26Z")
They seemed like two different problems at the time, honest. ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tie-an-index-to-a-dashboard-or-vizualization/26528/4 "2015-07-30T14:04:45Z")
I don't quite understand this one. When you have a saved visualization that you share via a link, it is already tied to an index pattern. In fact, once you create a visualization, the index pattern it's tied to is fixed and cannot be changed without messing with advanced options in Settings. This is unlike the question about the time range in the [other thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-tied-to-an-absolute-date-range/26519). Once you share visualization through a link with someone, when they click on it, they are taken to the Kibana UI. Once there, they can adjust the date pretty easily. I commented with some details on future enhancements and suggested workarounds on that thread. ---
**Author:** ![bdunbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tie-an-index-to-a-dashboard-or-vizualization/26528/5 "2015-07-30T14:28:02Z")
> [@tbragin](#): > > When you have a saved visualization that you share via a link, it is already tied to an index pattern. I should have come back to update - but it's been a busy night. I realized this when I exported a visualization to local disk to examine the JSON and LO there was the index pattern. An hour of edit, search, replace, import later I had things reasonably squared away. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tie-an-index-to-a-dashboard-or-vizualization/26528/6 "2017-07-06T14:15:34Z")