# Link Field in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 19, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248 "2018-01-19T13:48:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![clannadqs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/clannadqs/32/30088_2.png) [@clannadqs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clannadqs)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248/1 "2018-01-19T13:48:27Z")

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Hey guys,  
A few months ago I worked on something using the ELK stack. I never got extremely close to what was happening on Kibana, but I specifically remember there being a link field for Kibana visualisations. We were using the ID of each visualization as the "link" to where to go if the visualization was clicked on. I know they were using a few plugins such as num-health-metric and health-metric, but other than that I am not sure. Does this ring any bells? I can't find anything on it and it would be beneficial for me to find it.

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**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 19, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248/2 "2018-01-19T16:20:40Z")

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Not sure I follow, can you explain what the feature did a little more? Was it just turning field values into links in the UI? If so that sounds like [field formatters](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/field-formatters-string.html).

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**Author:** ![clannadqs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/clannadqs/32/30088_2.png) [@clannadqs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clannadqs)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248/3 "2018-01-19T19:47:47Z")

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Like I said, I didn't really deal with Kibana too much in the past so sorry for being vague with my question. From what I remember it was in the JSON of the visualization. So if an ID of one of my dashboards is Dashboard-1-Test, then in the link field for the visualization if you put "Dashbaord-1-Test" as the value it would redirect to that specific ID.

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**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 19, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248/4 "2018-01-19T20:14:10Z")

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Hmmm sorry, it doesn't ring a bell for me. You can link Visualizations to saved searches, but I'm not aware of any feature that linked visualizations to dashboards. It could be that there was a community plugin I'm unaware of.

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**Author:** ![clannadqs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/clannadqs/32/30088_2.png) [@clannadqs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/clannadqs)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248/5 "2018-01-19T21:43:11Z")

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```
{
"params": {
    "handleNoResults": true,
    "fontSize": 30,
    "fontColor": "white",
    "link": "#/TO_BE_MODIFIED_BY_DASHBOARD_MANAGER",
    "redColor": "#E51010",
    "yellowColor": "#FF8000",
    "greenColor": "#22A222",
    "greyColor": "#767676",
"greenThreshold": 2,
"yellowThreshold": 3,
"redThreshold": 4
},
"aggs": [{
    "id": "1",
    "enabled": true,
    "type": "avg",
    "schema": "metric",
    "params": {
        "field": "TO_BE_MODIFIED_BY_DASHBOARD_MANAGER", 
        "customLabel": "TO_BE_MODIFIED_BY_DASHBOARD_MANAGER"  
    }
}],
"listeners": {}

```

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Luckily I found one of our vis templates. That seems to be a plugin, doesn't it? I believe this was with 5.1

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**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 19, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248/6 "2018-01-19T22:07:31Z")

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Yeah, that looks like something custom to me.

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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:** [February 16, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/link-field-in-kibana/116248/7 "2018-02-16T22:07:49Z")

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