# Multiple kibana instance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instance/141938>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 27, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instance/141938 "2018-07-27T11:58:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![NerdSec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nerdsec/32/22056_2.png) [@NerdSec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NerdSec)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-kibana-instance/141938/3 "2018-07-27T12:46:42Z")

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> [@How to run a second Kibana instance?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-a-second-kibana-instance/141303):
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> Hi, How can I run a second Kibana instance on the same host? I've been searching for hours but have been unable to find any answers. I tried copying kibana.yml to kibana2.yml and change the port number to 5602 and default .kibana index to defaultindex2 but whe I tried to access myip:5602 the page doesn't load. I'm trying to achieve some form of multitenancy where dashboards aren't visable to others. I'm also running xpack but that doesn't prevent you from seeing the dashboard (only from seei…

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