# Copying dashboard into different Kibana instance **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [March 16, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboard-into-different-kibana-instance/124235 "2018-03-16T08:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![emil.mirzayev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@emil.mirzayev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emil.mirzayev)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboard-into-different-kibana-instance/124235/1 "2018-03-16T08:53:16Z")
Hi, I have two Kibana instances. Both have the same index with the same fields, mappings and etc. So, the data is identical. I made a dashboard on one of them. Is it possible to somehow copy the metadata of dashboard, or the dashboard itself via URL or any other method so that, I have the same dashboard also on the second instance? So that, no need to recreate all visualizations again and bind them together ---
**Author:** ![a5a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboard-into-different-kibana-instance/124235/2 "2018-03-16T16:03:03Z")
There's an undocumented way that we make this possible. [Look at this PR](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/10858), it describes that we added a Dashboard Import/export API (mainly for use internally). You should be able to do this. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/copying-dashboard-into-different-kibana-instance/124235/3 "2018-04-13T16:03:18Z")
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