# Kibana readonly mode
**URL:** https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498
**Category:** Search Guard
**Created:** [May 13, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498 "2019-05-13T14:50:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Mozart4242](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/Mozart4242)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/1 "2019-05-13T14:50:39Z")
hi
i’ve been using searchguard for quiet a long time and it is awesome.
i know how readonly mode works : it just shows the dashboard and nothing else.
QUESTION : i need to define a user with permission to only dashboards and discover section and i want the other sections like management and etc disappears just like the user with readonly mode. is that possible ?
consider this photo :
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### Author:  [@jkressin](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/jkressin)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/2 "2019-05-13T14:53:00Z")
Not at the moment, but this will be the next feature we release. It will enable you to configure Kibana application permissions per role, so you can control what applications a use can access. ETA is in the next 3-4 weeks.
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### Author:  [@jkressin](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/jkressin)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/3 "2019-05-13T14:53:11Z")
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### Author:  [@Mozart4242](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/Mozart4242)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/4 "2019-05-13T15:04:28Z")
wow thank you for your fast response !
i was asking this about 2 months ago and i was hopping this perfect function is now included in SG.
but thank you sir and i perfectly appreciate it.
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### Author:  [@jkressin](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/jkressin)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/5 "2019-05-13T15:07:24Z")
Yes, initially we had plans to release it for ES 6. But since we had to make some changes in the SG config format to support this feature, we had to wait for SG 7. Apologies for the delay here!
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### Author:  [@sanklamm](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/sanklamm)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/6 "2019-05-17T11:54:21Z")
This is great news. Do you plan to have this as a community feature or will it be coupled to the read-only mode?
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### Author:  [@jkressin](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/jkressin)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/7 "2019-05-17T14:53:25Z")
This will become a Community feature
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/kibana-readonly-mode/1498/8 "2019-06-07T14:53:27Z")
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