# Separate Kibana Dashboard Access by User/Role

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/separate-kibana-dashboard-access-by-user-role/159211>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/separate-kibana-dashboard-access-by-user-role/159211 "2018-12-03T16:02:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![MorganaOP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@MorganaOP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MorganaOP)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/separate-kibana-dashboard-access-by-user-role/159211/1 "2018-12-03T16:02:03Z")

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Hi,

I'm trying to manage dashboard access by users, so that user A is able to read indices A and write/read dashboard A, user B is able to read indices B, write/read dashboard B and not able to read/write dashboard that's created by other users. Same rule for user C, D, E etc. Basically I want each user to manage their own dashboard without interrupting others.

I found two options:  
1. Kibana Spaces  
2. Multitenancy with SearchGuard

They both seem to be sufficient to solve my problem, but I'm not sure what's the actual difference between these two, functionality-wise. Which solution would you suggest?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/separate-kibana-dashboard-access-by-user-role/159211/2 "2018-12-04T00:31:52Z")

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I am not sure about feature-to-feature comparison, but SearchGuard is a third-party plugin.

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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:** [January 1, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/separate-kibana-dashboard-access-by-user-role/159211/3 "2019-01-01T00:39:31Z")

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Closed on January 1, 2019, 12:39am UTC

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