# Read Only Kibana Dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-only-kibana-dashboard/82255>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 13, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-only-kibana-dashboard/82255 "2017-04-13T07:43:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![tausif786](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tausif786](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tausif786)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-only-kibana-dashboard/82255/1 "2017-04-13T07:43:45Z")

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Hello Everyone,  
I have created a Dashboard in Kibana 5 and now i want to share with users such that they can only view the Dashboard and not make any changes to it.  
How can i achieve that?  
Which privileges should be assigned ?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-only-kibana-dashboard/82255/2 "2017-04-13T14:13:15Z")

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hi @tausif786,

I guess you are using the Security plugin from X-Pack? You can assign the visitor-user read-only priviliges on the `.kibana` index. That way, they cannot modify any of the dashboards and visualizations.

You might also be interested in [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/10585](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/10585). Starting from 5.4, when sharing Dashboards, they will be shared in "view-only" mode, so visitors to shared dashboard will not see the editing-links. That will work without the Security-plugin too. 5.4 is the next upcoming minor release, which is coming soon.

thx,

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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:** [May 11, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/read-only-kibana-dashboard/82255/3 "2017-05-11T14:20:39Z")

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