# Beats 6.x does not require Kibana for importing dashboards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-6-x-does-not-require-kibana-for-importing-dashboards/98072>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-6-x-does-not-require-kibana-for-importing-dashboards/98072 "2017-08-23T12:26:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![vb4t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a698b9/32.png) [@vb4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vb4t)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-6-x-does-not-require-kibana-for-importing-dashboards/98072/1 "2017-08-23T12:26:31Z")

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Hello. I am testing beats 6.0. According to documentation (and source codes) it should require Kibana to load dashboards. But it loads dashboards without Kibana well (no Kibana is running on localhost:5601 ...). Is it OK, is it a BUG, will be dashboards corrupted?

Command:  
`BEATSNAME setup --dashboards -e -E output.elasticsearch.hosts="localhost:9200,localhost:9300" -E output.elasticsearch.username=elastic -E output.elasticsearch.password=changeme -E setup.kibana.host="localhost:5601" -E setup.kibana.username=elastic -E setup.kibana.password=changeme -E setup.dashboards.directory=beats-dashboards-6.0.0-beta1/winlogbeat -E setup.dashboards.beat=winlogbeat -E setup.dashboards.kibana_index=.index setup.dashboards.index="testbeat-*" -E setup.template.name=winlogbeat -E setup.template.fields=fields.yml -E setup.template.pattern="*-mypattern*-" -E setup.template.overwrite=true`

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-6-x-does-not-require-kibana-for-importing-dashboards/98072/2 "2017-08-24T13:11:49Z")

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Are you running ES/KB 6.0? Kibana running is required if it's on version 6.0, otherwise the Beats index directly in Elasticsearch (the old way).

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**Author:** ![vb4t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a698b9/32.png) [@vb4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vb4t)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-6-x-does-not-require-kibana-for-importing-dashboards/98072/3 "2017-08-25T10:30:38Z")

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Hello,

I am running ES 5. You are right, I did not see the part which is checking the ES version in the source codes before.

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:** [September 13, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-6-x-does-not-require-kibana-for-importing-dashboards/98072/4 "2017-09-13T12:26:44Z")

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