Kibana UI advanced settings

nivo33 · September 7, 2017, 9:21am

When the kibana advanced settings are changed, as refrenced here:

elastic/kibana/blob/3043ee78c8f71db939d5d665736a396d53fb49fd/docs/management/advanced-options.asciidoc

[[advanced-options]]
== Setting Advanced Options

The *Advanced Settings* page enables you to directly edit settings that control the behavior of the Kibana application.
For example, you can change the format used to display dates, specify the default index pattern, and set the precision
for displayed decimal values.

To set advanced options:

. Go to *Settings > Advanced*.
. Click the *Edit* button for the option you want to modify.
. Enter a new value for the option.
. Click the *Save* button.

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[[kibana-settings-reference]]

WARNING: Modifying the following settings can significantly affect Kibana's performance and cause problems that are
difficult to diagnose. Setting a property's value to a blank field will revert to the default behavior, which may not be
compatible with other configuration settings. Deleting a custom setting removes it from Kibana permanently.

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Which file is changed? Where are these settings located?
Thank you

warkolm · September 7, 2017, 9:23am

I think you are referring to this page of the docs? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.5/advanced-options.html

nivo33 · September 7, 2017, 10:33am

Yes, this is the same doc as the one in the link i posted. But I would like to write a script that changes some of these settings on my ubuntu machine, so I wanted to know where the file that lists these configurations can be found, an /etc/kibana/.conf or .yml or something of the sort that lists these options and can be changed from outside the UI.
Thanks!

warkolm · September 8, 2017, 1:07am

They are stored in the .kibana index.

system · October 6, 2017, 1:07am

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