# Main dashboard Kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/main-dashboard-kibana/166742
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 1, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/main-dashboard-kibana/166742 "2019-02-01T13:49:22Z")
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### Author: ![RdrgPorto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rdrgporto/32/13278_2.png) [@RdrgPorto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RdrgPorto)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/main-dashboard-kibana/166742/1 "2019-02-01T13:49:23Z")

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Hi, everyone 😀

I have some doubts about how to configure a main dashboard for **Kibana**. I configured **Kibana** in order to visualize a dashboard by default ( **kibana.yml** )

```
# Default Dashboard
kibana.defaultAppId: dashboard/Main-dashboard

```

However, when one clicks on **Dashboard icon (1)** or **Kibana icon (2)**, it redirects to another section.

 ![Kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/f/7f3a25b5374f7a0823f6ece7969413f070eeb50d.png)

An example with **Kibana icon (1)**:

 ![Kibana-1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/3/c31ed48ea9c32d23c6f4c9d3a7ed341a8779cdda.png)

An example with **Dashboard icon (2)**:

 ![Kibana-2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/4/b43bf798f0f7d74a09afa5b6157065b565f4f890.png)

Is it possible to configure **Kibana** in order to redirects always to a dashboard ( **Main-dashboard** in this case) by default?

Thanks in advance 🖖,

Rodrigo

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### Author: ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/main-dashboard-kibana/166742/2 "2019-02-03T04:05:54Z")

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I believe what you're looking for is something we call "Dashboard Only Mode" and you can read more about it here: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-dashboard-only-mode](https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-dashboard-only-mode)

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### Author: ![RdrgPorto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rdrgporto/32/13278_2.png) [@RdrgPorto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RdrgPorto)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/main-dashboard-kibana/166742/3 "2019-02-04T07:23:19Z")

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Hi, @tylersmalley

Even with " **Dashboard Only Mode**", if you click on **Dashboard icon** , it redirects to the window in which has all your dashboards.

 ![Dashboards](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/d/cd0ee19b4c2a80b10a44b1fe7a9a1e0c825a2c58.png)

Thanks in advance,

📌 **Update**

By modifying **src/core\_plugins/kibana/index.js** :

```
id: 'kibana:dashboard',
title: 'Dashboard',
order: -1001,
url: `${kbnBaseUrl}#/dashboard/Main-dashboard`,
// The subUrlBase is the common substring of all urls for this app. If not given, it defaults to the url
// above. This app has to use a different subUrlBase, in addition to the url above, because "#/dashboard"
// routes to a page that creates a new dashboard. When we introduced a landing page, we needed to change
// the url above in order to preserve the original url for BWC. The subUrlBase helps the Chrome api nav
// to determine what url to use for the app link.
subUrlBase: `${kbnBaseUrl}#/dashboard/Main-dashboard`,
description: 'compose visualizations for much win',
icon: 'plugins/kibana/assets/dashboard.svg'

```

Rodrigo

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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: [March 4, 2019, 7:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/main-dashboard-kibana/166742/4 "2019-03-04T07:23:24Z")

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