# Secfurity problems with Kibana's dispalyed error messages **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secfurity-problems-with-kibanas-dispalyed-error-messages/81354 "2017-04-05T17:45:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carlfriedrichgauss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@carlfriedrichgauss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/carlfriedrichgauss)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secfurity-problems-with-kibanas-dispalyed-error-messages/81354/1 "2017-04-05T17:45:01Z")
Hi. I have a few ELK stacks. Recently, Kibana started having some issues. No problem, I was able to fix, but I noticed the error message displayed in the web browser was very content-rich. Lots of FQDNs, ports and file paths. This isn't the type of information we want end users to see - for purposes malicious or otherwise. Does anyone know how to configure Kibana's error messages to be generic and NOT show all this additional information? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Court](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/court/32/6640_2.png) [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secfurity-problems-with-kibanas-dispalyed-error-messages/81354/2 "2017-04-05T18:44:22Z")
Do you mean the error messages/stack traces that you get when the browser-side code triggers an error? In that case, those errors are not leaking sensitive information as it is all client-side to the current user's browser. If the error messages are leaking server-side details such as server file paths or configurations, then that's a bug. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secfurity-problems-with-kibanas-dispalyed-error-messages/81354/3 "2017-05-03T18:44:22Z")
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