diff --git a/caravel/config.py b/caravel/config.py
index 93930cc1b284..18c9d5c69f06 100644
--- a/caravel/config.py
+++ b/caravel/config.py
@@ -121,6 +121,15 @@
 CACHE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = None
 CACHE_CONFIG = {'CACHE_TYPE': 'null'}
 
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------
+# List of viz_types not allowed in your environment
+# For example: Blacklist pivot table and treemap:
+#  VIZ_TYPE_BLACKLIST = ['pivot_table', 'treemap']
+# ---------------------------------------------------
+
+VIZ_TYPE_BLACKLIST = []
+
 try:
     from caravel_config import *  # noqa
 except Exception:
diff --git a/caravel/viz.py b/caravel/viz.py
index 9d5f56fc4fba..2765244f9e03 100644
--- a/caravel/viz.py
+++ b/caravel/viz.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 import uuid
 from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-
 import pandas as pd
 import numpy as np
 from flask import flash, request, Markup
@@ -1540,4 +1539,5 @@ def get_data(self):
     TreemapViz,
 ]
 
-viz_types = OrderedDict([(v.viz_type, v) for v in viz_types_list])
+viz_types = OrderedDict([(v.viz_type, v) for v in viz_types_list
+                         if v.viz_type not in config.get('VIZ_TYPE_BLACKLIST')])