# QUESTION : Disable access to Kibana Console when using ELK inside a webapp

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-disable-access-to-kibana-console-when-using-elk-inside-a-webapp/236938>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-disable-access-to-kibana-console-when-using-elk-inside-a-webapp/236938 "2020-06-12T19:44:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-disable-access-to-kibana-console-when-using-elk-inside-a-webapp/236938/9 "2020-06-24T14:49:54Z")

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@mattkime  
Thanks for your pointers... with your help and the amazing post and links in these posts. we were able to achieve what we wanted.

thanks again.

posting the link for my fellow future kibanites...

> [@Auto-authenticating to iframe-embedded Kibana dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-authenticating-to-iframe-embedded-kibana-dashboard/46091):
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> I have a Shield-protected Kibana 4.5 dashboard that I'm embedding via iframe. Is there any way to programmatically provide the user/password so that the user automatically auths and the dashboard is displayed? I've attempted the following with no luck: \<iframe src="https://username:password@myKibanaHost....\> \<iframe src="https://myKibanaHost?embed=true&username=myuser&password=mypass\> I know this isn't best idea to embed credentials in the iframe, but this is an internal system and we don't…

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