# Two Kibana instance on one single Elasticsearch cluster pointing at different Indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instance-on-one-single-elasticsearch-cluster-pointing-at-different-indexes/299002>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 7, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instance-on-one-single-elasticsearch-cluster-pointing-at-different-indexes/299002 "2022-03-07T18:30:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![siemdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@siemdude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/siemdude)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instance-on-one-single-elasticsearch-cluster-pointing-at-different-indexes/299002/1 "2022-03-07T18:30:02Z")

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I am trying to create two Kibana on top of a single Elasticsearch cluster. I want to separate data at Kibana level instead of Spaces. Is it possible with Kibana Cloud? Which fields to configure to separate specific indices for the different Kibanas?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instance-on-one-single-elasticsearch-cluster-pointing-at-different-indexes/299002/2 "2022-03-07T21:41:34Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

> [@siemdude](#):
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> Is it possible with Kibana Cloud?

Do you mean Kibana on Elastic Cloud? If so, no, you cannot do that.

You could setup external Kibana instances that you manage yourself, and do it that way.

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**Author:** ![siemdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@siemdude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/siemdude)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instance-on-one-single-elasticsearch-cluster-pointing-at-different-indexes/299002/3 "2022-03-08T15:05:20Z")

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Thanks for the welcome!

If I manage a Kibana outside, how should I configure it to pick up specific Indices and exclude the rest?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instance-on-one-single-elasticsearch-cluster-pointing-at-different-indexes/299002/4 "2022-03-08T22:11:09Z")

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[User authorization | Elasticsearch Guide [8.1] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/authorization.html) would be the best approach.

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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:** [April 5, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/two-kibana-instance-on-one-single-elasticsearch-cluster-pointing-at-different-indexes/299002/5 "2022-04-05T22:11:36Z")

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