# why is my netdata visible to everyone?

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/why-is-my-netdata-visible-to-everyone/4664>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 15, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/why-is-my-netdata-visible-to-everyone/4664 "2023-09-15T22:39:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![ledled](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba9def/32.png) [@ledled](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ledled)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/why-is-my-netdata-visible-to-everyone/4664/1 "2023-09-15T22:39:23Z")

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HI

can it be and so it seems my netdata is freely visible on the net?

can do this without wireguart tunnel and without call ip:19999

is it really like that ? can i please stop it ? at least put a password on it ? that not everyone can call this ip:port ?

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**Author:** ![andrewm4894](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/andrewm4894/32/125_2.png) [@andrewm4894](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/andrewm4894)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2023, 10:42am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/why-is-my-netdata-visible-to-everyone/4664/2 "2023-09-16T10:42:38Z")

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This comes up from time to time, this post discusses it and some of the reasons and motivations

As well as some of the ways to disable the default behaviour

> **[Netdata’s dashboard: open by default and secure by design | Netdata Blog](https://blog.netdata.cloud/netdata-agent-dashboard/)**
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> Netdata’s dashboard: open by default and secure by design