# Dashboard setup failure

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-setup-failure/149922>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [September 26, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-setup-failure/149922 "2018-09-26T04:11:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![relentless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@relentless](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/relentless)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-setup-failure/149922/1 "2018-09-26T04:11:37Z")

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Hi  
I'm trying to perform the dashboard setup.  
Using kibana 5.6.9  
Receive the following error on setup. Using the command  
`metricbeat -c metricbeat.yml setup --dashboards`

`error loading C:\temp\metricbeat\kibana\5\index-pattern\metricbeat.json: returned 400 to import file: <nil>. Response: {"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"\"fieldFormatMap\" is not allowed. \"fields\" is not allowed. \"timeFieldName\" is not allowed. \"title\" is not allowed","validation":{"source":"payload","keys":["fieldFormatMap","fields","timeFieldName","title"]}}`

Any advice?

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-setup-failure/149922/2 "2018-09-26T21:38:10Z")

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Which metricbeat version are you using?

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**Author:** ![relentless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@relentless](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/relentless)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-setup-failure/149922/3 "2018-09-26T21:54:23Z")

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Sorry metricbeats version is 6.4.0

I'll be honest I didn't check to see if it was backwards compatible with my version of kibana.

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**Author:** ![relentless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@relentless](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/relentless)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-setup-failure/149922/4 "2018-09-26T22:36:27Z")

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Thanks ruflin, my bad for not checking backwards compatibility. Works fine with the right metricbeats version.

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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:** [October 24, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-setup-failure/149922/5 "2018-10-24T22:36:37Z")

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