# Dashboards always deploy to default space

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-always-deploy-to-default-space/376543>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [March 28, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-always-deploy-to-default-space/376543 "2025-03-28T17:23:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-always-deploy-to-default-space/376543/1 "2025-03-28T17:23:32Z")

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I am trying to get started with sample dashboards for Metricbeat, but I need to have them in separate Kibana spaces. I know about the

```auto
setup.kibana.space.id: "space-id"

```

option in metricbeat.yml, and I have it set properly pointed to a space I want the dashboards in. However no matter how many times I try to run

```sh
metricbeat setup -e

```

dashboards always upload into the default space.  
I thought maybe there is something wrong with the config, but the config test returns OK, and I've even tried overwriting the space.id like this:

```sh
sudo metricbeat setup -E setup.kibana.space.id="my-space-id" 

```

with the exact same result.

Is there something I can do to debug what's the issue?