# Restricting modification to some of visualizations on Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-modification-to-some-of-visualizations-on-kibana/164384>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-modification-to-some-of-visualizations-on-kibana/164384 "2019-01-15T22:22:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![mayanks8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mayanks8](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayanks8)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-modification-to-some-of-visualizations-on-kibana/164384/1 "2019-01-15T22:22:36Z")

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Hi All,

I am using Kibana 6.5 version, I have some of the users who are modifying custom reports and bypassing the gates.  
I need to make those reports read only to all the user and read/write to one user. how can we achive this?

I was reading about implementation of X-Pack but it needs to installed on both elastic and Kibana. is there any other way where only Kibana can be restricted? not elastic or logstash.

any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![timroes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timroes/32/19712_2.png) [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-modification-to-some-of-visualizations-on-kibana/164384/2 "2019-01-17T13:47:45Z")

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The only official supported way is enable Security in Kibana: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/using-kibana-with-security.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/using-kibana-with-security.html) and then you can limit access depending on different spaces. There is no other supported way. There might be workaround when running behind a reverse proxy but they tend to be very error prone and usually won't survive a minor version update.

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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 14, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restricting-modification-to-some-of-visualizations-on-kibana/164384/3 "2019-02-14T13:47:50Z")

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