Kibana : Disable home page

[jguay]

Describe the feature:
Clicking on top-left icon Home shows page with sections Add data to Kibana, Visualize and Explore Data and Manage and Administer the Elastic Stack.
It is not currently possible to disable the Home page
Describe a specific use case for the feature:
Using kibana.defaultAppId or defaultroute (available in advanced settings per space in 7.5), it is already possible to set default starting page after logging in kibana space to discover.

Request for a new option to disable the Home page from feature control so clicking on Top-Left Home icon redirects to the default application (or the first application for the space if there is no defaultroute / defaultAppId)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app (Team:KibanaApp)

[timroes]

Related: #21911

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-core-ui (Team:Core UI)

[anantkumar123]

can we disable home page in 7.8 and what setting will be required for that

[ryankeairns]

As far as I am aware, there is no way currently to disable the home page. The feature requested by this issue is not currently on the Core UI roadmap, but we will continue to track feedback here.

As a side note for instances with Spaces enabled, you can set a different log in (start) page for each Space, however this will not override the home page button itself.

[djamaile]

Also, interested in this feature. Any updates or thoughts?

[ryankeairns]

There have been no recent discussions for adding this capability, but we'll continue to monitor feedback.

Relatedly, the home page was recently redesigned in 7.10, and we have additional plans that will make the content more dynamic and personalized. Further, we added an explicit link to display a different page upon log in, for those using the Spaces feature, that mitigates this need to a degree.

Thanks for the feedback and interest.

[balee]

I understand that disabling the home page is not on the roadmap.

However, there are parts of the UI which are pointless and annoying in certain situations.
In the case of a readonly user who has rights only for discovering indexes, what is the point of

• "Add data" on Home page: nothing can be done there
• "Manage" on Home page: it says "Application Not Found" anyway
• The whole "Ingest your data" section on Home page
• All the above applies also to Analytics / Overview

The best would be if these were hidden automatically based on user rights.
If it is problematic, there should be a way to hide them manually.

[ryankeairns]

@balee Thanks for the specific use cases. I have turned your comment into a new issue.

[ryankeairns]

@balee for clarification, which version of Kibana did you encounter this on?

[balee]

@balee for clarification, which version of Kibana did you encounter this on?
v7.11.0

[nicenemo]

@balee, What is this new issue? Perhaps link here and close this one?

I have:

• users who can only stare at dashboards
• users with a bit more rights
• power users

The first category will probably start asking questions about adding your data etc. They have no business in the technical details of the ELK stack. I also want to disable it for the second category.

I want to disable or customize the page for these on a per space basis. Since I drop them in a Dashboard immediately, it makes not sense to have that page.

[jvv-xsys]

For users that only have dashboard access, this home button is super confusing.
It makes explaining the interface for those users also needlessly complicated.
Basically, you have to tell those users: whatever you do never click on the home button.
There is also no easy way to explain to users to navigate back to the original home page of the single space they have access to. You cannot refer to clicking on the 'home' dashboard in the Recently viewed page, because it is not guaranteed that this dashboard is one of the most recently viewed pages. You cannot ask to click on the Dashboard option in the hamburger menu as this has a different behaviour depending whether you were already looking at a dashboard or not.

Being able to customize this home button on a per space or per role base would greatly improve the user experience for people that only have dashboard access.