# Backing up Kibana dashboards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-kibana-dashboards/364944
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [August 15, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-kibana-dashboards/364944 "2024-08-15T09:07:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@it-intelliroad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/it-intelliroad)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-kibana-dashboards/364944/1 "2024-08-15T09:07:49Z")
im pretty new to all of this, currently my setup consists of 3 ES instances and dockerized Kibana and Logstash.
before i also had ES dockerized but i struggled with the backing FS as i used a networkFS with docker swarm.
so i migrated to bare metal and tried to move my data via snapshot. but i wasnt able to restore most of my Kibana data, especially my dashboards. so is there an official procedure on how to back-up dashboard data or can anyone point me to a how-to?
i understand that this data sits in some .kibana (system) index, but i wasnt able to identify which and restoring all of them from my snapshot wasnt working at all.
thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@Shaoranlaos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shaoranlaos)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-up-kibana-dashboards/364944/2 "2024-08-15T09:31:43Z")
Hello,
you can export and import all Kibana Objects via the Saved Objects GUI in Stack Management (under Kibana).
I think that is the official way.
There is also an API to automate this:
[Export objects API | Kibana Guide [8.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-export.html)
[Import objects API | Kibana Guide [8.15] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-import.html)
BR