# Using Kibana visualizations without the Kibana dashboard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-kibana-visualizations-without-the-kibana-dashboard/108203
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-kibana-visualizations-without-the-kibana-dashboard/108203 "2017-11-17T21:54:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@braddelcat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braddelcat)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-kibana-visualizations-without-the-kibana-dashboard/108203/1 "2017-11-17T21:54:29Z")
I've just started looking into Kibana today, and so far not seeing documentation or options on integrating Kibana visualizations outside of the Kibana dashboard. I did see a topic about [integrating the dashboard into an Angular 2 application with iframes](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/integrate-kibana-into-angular-2-application/86402), but we are not needing the dashboard itself. Also, we would need the visualizations to integrate (call methods, and respond to events) with features external to the visualizations themselves.
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### Author:  [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-kibana-visualizations-without-the-kibana-dashboard/108203/2 "2017-11-20T16:33:57Z")
There is no feature of Kibana that allows you to use visualizations in other applications. The embed feature of dashboard is the closest thing to that.
There is ongoing work to make Kibana visualizations embeddable in plugins outside of the dashboard but still _within Kibana itself_. Is that the sort of thing you're looking for?
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### Author:  [@braddelcat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braddelcat)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-kibana-visualizations-without-the-kibana-dashboard/108203/3 "2017-11-21T19:34:59Z")
Thanks, Court. Would this mean we would need to bring Kibana into our codebase? Is that possible? Would we then need to wrap each widget in a separate instance of Kibana, or could we in some way wrap our entire dashboard in Kibana? What is support like for custom visualizations? We would like to be able to use Kibana visualizations, but with added features to respond to events, and propagate outgoing events to the rest of our system.
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### Author:  [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-kibana-visualizations-without-the-kibana-dashboard/108203/4 "2017-12-18T18:07:31Z")
Sorry for the delay in responding to this.
"Bringing kibana into your codebase" isn't really possible, or at least I don't know how it would be done. Kibana does support custom visualizations, though. I recommend taking a look at the [Developing visualizations](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/development-visualize-index.html) docs to get started.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-kibana-visualizations-without-the-kibana-dashboard/108203/5 "2018-01-15T18:07:48Z")
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