# Using OpenDistro Kibana with "not OpenDistro" Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-opendistro-kibana-with-not-opendistro-elasticsearch/308>\
**Category:** General Feedback\
**Created:** [March 28, 2019, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-opendistro-kibana-with-not-opendistro-elasticsearch/308 "2019-03-28T20:11:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/using-opendistro-kibana-with-not-opendistro-elasticsearch/308/5 "2019-08-02T17:17:00Z")

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Hi @vamsi_vutukuri, you can, but it’ll take some work. ODFE Kibana contains two plugins, Security and Alerting, both of which rely on their corresponding Elasticsearch plugins being installed on the cluster. If you want to use ODFE Kibana, you have to either uninstall the two Kibana plugins (which defeats the point of using ODFE Kibana) or [install the two Elasticsearch plugins](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/install/plugins/).

We haven’t tested on Ubuntu 14.04, but I suspect you could probably get it to work.

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