# Any way to restore the sample dashboards?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 30, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850 "2017-11-30T23:36:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![learner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@learner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/learner)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850/1 "2017-11-30T23:36:37Z")

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I had manually deleted each of them to not mix with my custom dashboards.

Now I want to refer to some of their settings and want to restore them.

Is it possible?

I tried re-installing ES, Kibana, Packetbeat, etc. but they don't come back, as they are stored apparently under the ES's data directory and have been removed by me thru the Kibana GUI.

Thanks in advance!

- Young

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850/2 "2017-11-30T23:37:53Z")

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Which sample dashboards are you referring to?

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**Author:** ![learner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@learner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/learner)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850/3 "2017-11-30T23:40:27Z")

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I think they had come with Packetbeat, as some of them shown below, but removing and installing it again didn't help.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/4/44c02e88a058d3b75d7bcd800db170f31faa00e6.png)

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**Author:** ![learner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@learner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/learner)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850/4 "2017-12-01T00:13:48Z")

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Well, googling around, I restored those sample dashboards with the following command:

**packetbeat setup**

Source: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/command-line-options.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/command-line-options.html)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850/5 "2017-12-01T00:14:22Z")

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Great! 😃  
For future reference - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/load-kibana-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/load-kibana-dashboards.html)

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**Author:** ![learner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@learner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/learner)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850/6 "2017-12-01T00:19:20Z")

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Yep, your referenced page shows more direct solution.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 12:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-way-to-restore-the-sample-dashboards/109850/7 "2017-12-29T00:19:28Z")

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