Hi, I am using elasticsearch 2.1.0 and kibana 4.3.0. To create visualizations dynamically, first I created it manually. Then I exported the same visualization .json file from Settings--Objects--Visualizations. The .json is as follows: [ { "_id": "company", "_type": "visualization", …

Hi @aviral_srivastava , when posting the document to Elasticsearch, make sure to keep the visState field as one string with properly escaped nested quotes. From your sample POST body it looks like you've tries to post that field as an object while Elasticsearch expects a string.

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cjcenizal (CJ Cenizal) December 9, 2017, 12:18am 5

For anyone else coming upon this thread, we now have an API for creating saved objects such as visualizations. See Kibana visualization and foreach? for more info.

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