# Role based access to Kibana dashboards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-based-access-to-kibana-dashboards/25435>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 13, 2015, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-based-access-to-kibana-dashboards/25435 "2015-07-13T10:33:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Navneet\_Mathpal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/navneet_mathpal/32/3677_2.png) [@Navneet\_Mathpal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Navneet_Mathpal)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-based-access-to-kibana-dashboards/25435/1 "2015-07-13T10:33:46Z")

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Hi,

Is there any feature in kibana like:For same dashboards User A is having access only 2 graphs, and User B has access to 1 graphs, something like this.  
Is it possible to add access featues in kibana ?

Best Regards,  
Navneet

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**Author:** ![juerkan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4491bb/32.png) [@juerkan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juerkan)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-based-access-to-kibana-dashboards/25435/2 "2015-07-13T12:18:37Z")

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+1, good question

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-based-access-to-kibana-dashboards/25435/3 "2015-07-13T12:21:56Z")

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Fine-grained access control within Kibana itself is not yet possible (but is on the roadmap). However, data-level access control is possible when using the [Shield](https://www.elastic.co/products/shield) plugin within Elasticsearch. So, if the user does not have access to the data behind one of the charts, Kibana will display an empty chart, while the other user who does have access to the data will see the chart with the data.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/role-based-access-to-kibana-dashboards/25435/4 "2017-07-06T14:16:38Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:16pm UTC