# Backup dashboard in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backup-dashboard-in-kibana/240580>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backup-dashboard-in-kibana/240580 "2020-07-09T17:46:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![liron\_gofberg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/liron_gofberg/32/59823_2.png) [@liron\_gofberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/liron_gofberg)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backup-dashboard-in-kibana/240580/1 "2020-07-09T17:46:08Z")

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Hi,

I created a dashboard and it was beautiful and impressive  
Something goes wrong with my index and because of that I found myself delete the index and recreate it to fix the problem  
but then I have found that there was no dashboard anymore😞  
It was deleted  
And it was so disappointing

There is a way to backup a dashboard so I won’t need to recreate it if there is need to recreate the index?

Please,  
It’s important to me

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backup-dashboard-in-kibana/240580/2 "2020-07-10T00:07:18Z")

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There's a few options.

1. In the UI, management -\> saved objects -\> export everything. This will get searches, visualizations, and dashboards. Index patterns will have to be re-added
2. There's a newer API for exporting dashboards, although it's still undocumented. [Kibana import/export dashboard api](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-import-export-dashboard-api/108180) offers some pointers on how to use it.
3. At a low level, saving the .kibana index. All kibana state is saved in the .kibana index, so you can snapshot/restore, or use another tool to dump all the documents.

hope this helps  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![liron\_gofberg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/liron_gofberg/32/59823_2.png) [@liron\_gofberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/liron_gofberg)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backup-dashboard-in-kibana/240580/3 "2020-07-10T05:18:23Z")

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Thanks a lot​:pray:t2:🙂

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backup-dashboard-in-kibana/240580/4 "2020-07-10T15:57:21Z")

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welcome..hope it helped.

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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:** [August 7, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backup-dashboard-in-kibana/240580/5 "2020-08-07T15:57:24Z")

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