# Creating Dashboard Using Rest API?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-using-rest-api/106467>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 6, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-using-rest-api/106467 "2017-11-06T06:16:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joeltstephen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@Joeltstephen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joeltstephen)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-using-rest-api/106467/1 "2017-11-06T06:16:18Z")

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Is it possible to create Kibana dashboard using rest api ?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-using-rest-api/106467/2 "2017-11-06T23:05:38Z")

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hi @Joeltstephen,

that's a doozy of a question 😉 !

Could you explain a little more what you are looking for? Do you mean you would like a programmable API from Kibana that allows you to create a dashboard?

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**Author:** ![Joeltstephen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@Joeltstephen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joeltstephen)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-using-rest-api/106467/3 "2017-11-07T05:18:46Z")

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Hi @thomasneirynck

I want to create a Kibana dashboard through backend. Is there any API to do this operation ?  
i am looking for something that can be do with curl command.

//regards  
Joel T Stephen

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-using-rest-api/106467/4 "2017-11-07T22:41:40Z")

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Hi @Joeltstephen,

there's no publically exposed API for this, but there is an open PREQ for this: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4759](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4759).

All dashboards are stored as saved-objects (basically a JSON-object that described which visualizations are included, plus some other settings).

Kibana internally uses a REST-API to manage saved-objects (so you can use curl to make requests). You can find more details about that here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4759](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4759). This is an internal implementation detail though, so this is subject to change at any time.

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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 5, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-using-rest-api/106467/5 "2017-12-05T22:41:57Z")

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