# Start several Kibana services **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [October 19, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-several-kibana-services/63376 "2016-10-19T10:48:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![misiekzet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@misiekzet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misiekzet)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-several-kibana-services/63376/1 "2016-10-19T10:48:11Z")
Hi, I want to be able to start more than one Kibana service (Linux RH - kibana installed via rpm) with other configuration file other to /opt/kibana/confing/kibana.yml. For example i want to create another init file i.e. kibana\_external pointing another config file i.e. /opt/kibana/confing/kibana\_external.yml to start kibana\_external service along to existing kibana service (on other port and another .kibana index). Any ideas how can I do that? Thanks in advance!!! ---
**Author:** ![misiekzet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@misiekzet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/misiekzet)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-several-kibana-services/63376/2 "2016-10-19T12:15:36Z")
Ok, I found the solution. In init script Change name of the variable i.e. kibana\_external Add -c argument with path to new config file in line: exec "$program" -c "/opt/kibana/config/kibana\_external.yml" $args Create new file in (copy existing file /etc/default/kibana) /etc/default/kibana\_external Start new service -\> DONE! ---
**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, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-several-kibana-services/63376/3 "2017-07-06T13:36:16Z")