# Dashboard Templates Kibana 5.0.0 alpha-2?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-templates-kibana-5-0-0-alpha-2/50883
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 24, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-templates-kibana-5-0-0-alpha-2/50883 "2016-05-24T20:10:42Z")
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### Author: ![Mick\_Mahoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Mick\_Mahoney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mick_Mahoney)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-templates-kibana-5-0-0-alpha-2/50883/1 "2016-05-24T20:10:42Z")

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Hi,

I'm quite new to ELK stack and deving on 5.0.0.

I want a single Master Kibana Dashboard showing summary Topbeat statistics, and a Detail dashboard for each Server. I will use a Markup Visualization for navigation between dashboards.

Strikes me that for each Server Dashboard I'm re-doing each visualization, and replicating dashboards (one for each server). I'm building up a future maintenance nightmare.

I would much rather have Template visualizations, and a Template Dashboard (containing the Template Visualizations(. Then pass a parameter to the Template Dashboard (for example the server name) which propagates down to each visualization. Then I just have 1 of everything to maintain for all the Server detail dashboard & visualizations - instead of 1 of everything per server.

Is this possible please ?

Many Thanks in anticipation,

Mick

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### Author: ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-templates-kibana-5-0-0-alpha-2/50883/2 "2016-05-24T20:23:32Z")

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You should start by looking at [https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/topbeat/etc/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/topbeat/etc/kibana) which is a collection of JSON documents for the `.kibana` index. They include a `topbeat-*` index pattern, some visualizations and a dashboard based on Topbeat data. [This script](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/dev-tools/import_dashboards.sh) will load the documents into Elasticsearch.

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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: [July 6, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-templates-kibana-5-0-0-alpha-2/50883/3 "2017-07-06T13:52:22Z")

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