# Dashboards importing from a kibana interface does not work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-importing-from-a-kibana-interface-does-not-work/168035>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-importing-from-a-kibana-interface-does-not-work/168035 "2019-02-12T12:58:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![JDev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jdev/32/40795_2.png) [@JDev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JDev)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-importing-from-a-kibana-interface-does-not-work/168035/1 "2019-02-12T12:58:05Z")

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Hello, tell me what am I doing wrong?

I downloaded the dashboards from here.  
[https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-6.6.0.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-6.6.0.zip)

**I'm going to the kibana interface -\> Management -\> SavedObjects -\> imports**

 ![2019-02-12%2013_35_36-Kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/6/d677f3a07c0dc759d4b075d967673be3311c4765.png)

Thanks for the help.

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**Author:** ![jen-huang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jen-huang/32/74327_2.png) [@jen-huang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jen-huang)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-importing-from-a-kibana-interface-does-not-work/168035/2 "2019-02-12T17:40:35Z")

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Hi, I believe the Beats dashboards zip at that path is meant for use with the Beats setup command:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/6.6/import-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/6.6/import-dashboards.html)  
They will not work with the Saved Objects interface.

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**Author:** ![JDev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jdev/32/40795_2.png) [@JDev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JDev)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-importing-from-a-kibana-interface-does-not-work/168035/3 "2019-02-13T14:03:55Z")

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All clear. Thanks for the answer.

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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:** [March 13, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-importing-from-a-kibana-interface-does-not-work/168035/4 "2019-03-13T14:03:59Z")

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