# Short URL redirect problem Internet Explorer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/short-url-redirect-problem-internet-explorer/176916>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 15, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/short-url-redirect-problem-internet-explorer/176916 "2019-04-15T13:32:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Stancho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Stancho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stancho)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/short-url-redirect-problem-internet-explorer/176916/1 "2019-04-15T13:32:13Z")

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Hi guys,

I have a Dashboard in Kibana (6.5.0) which has a pretty long URL (more than 2000 characters). That's why I cannot open the dashboard in Internet Explorer. Generating a  
short URL ( [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.5/url-shortening-api-api-shorten-url.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.5/url-shortening-api-api-shorten-url.html) ) didn't help, because the short URL is being redirected to the 'long' one, that can't be opened from Internet Explorer. So how can I make my dashboard work in IE?

Best regards  
Stancho

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/short-url-redirect-problem-internet-explorer/176916/2 "2019-04-15T15:13:21Z")

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Hi  
You need to use the short url setting in advanced settings  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html)  
and Kibana tracks UI state in the URL, which can lead to problems when there is a lot of information there and the URL gets very long. Enabling " state:storeInSessionStorage " - will store parts of the state in your browser session instead, to keep the URL shorter.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![Stancho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Stancho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stancho)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/short-url-redirect-problem-internet-explorer/176916/3 "2019-04-15T16:14:47Z")

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Thank you very much @rashmi 🙂 This is the solution I was looking for!

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/short-url-redirect-problem-internet-explorer/176916/4 "2019-04-15T16:35:22Z")

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Glad to have helped.

-Rashmi

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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 13, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/short-url-redirect-problem-internet-explorer/176916/5 "2019-05-13T16:35:22Z")

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