# Creating Kibana Dashboard Programmatically
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-dashboard-programmatically/40716
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 2, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-dashboard-programmatically/40716 "2016-02-02T10:42:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajeev_Gaurav)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-dashboard-programmatically/40716/1 "2016-02-02T10:42:54Z")
Hi All,
I am trying to create a dashboard pro grammatically.I am using elastic search 2.1.1 ,log stash 2.1.1 and Kibana 4.3.1
Kindly help.
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### Author:  [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-dashboard-programmatically/40716/2 "2016-02-03T13:18:56Z")
You can either write directly to the .kibana index or use the URL structure to create dynamic dashboards (though the latter requires you already have saved visualizations you're combining).
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### Author:  [@Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajeev_Gaurav)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-dashboard-programmatically/40716/5 "2016-02-19T08:48:24Z")
Hi Tbragin,
I tried write directly to the .kibana index using below Curl command and got the error.Can you please help me.
curl -XPUT [http://rajeevpc:9200/.kibana/dashboard/testdashboard](http://rajeevpc:9200/.kibana/dashboard/testdashboard) -d '{[
{
"\_id": "D1",
"\_type": "dashboard",
"\_source": {
"title": "D1",
"hits": 0,
"description": "",
"panelsJSON": "[{"id":"V1","type":"visualization","panelIndex":1,"size\_x":3,"size\_y":2,"col":1,"row":1}]",
"optionsJSON": "{"darkTheme":false}",
"uiStateJSON": "{}",
"version": 1,
"timeRestore": false,
"kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {
"searchSourceJSON": "{"filter":[{"query":{"query\_string":{"query":"\*","analyze\_wildcard":true}}}]}"
}
}
}
]}'
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1024 100 469 100 555 14656 17343 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 17343{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception","reason":"failed to parse"}],"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception","reason":"failed to parse","caused\_by":{"type":"json\_parse\_exception","reason":"Unexpected character ('[' (code 91)): was expecting either valid name character (for unquoted name) or double-quote (for quoted) to start field name\n at [Source: org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.InputStreamStreamInput@77224b66; line: 1, column: 3]"}},"status":400}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-kibana-dashboard-programmatically/40716/6 "2017-07-06T14:01:45Z")