# Error importing Kibana dashboards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-importing-kibana-dashboards/120336>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 18, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-importing-kibana-dashboards/120336 "2018-02-18T06:27:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Vijayvergia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Vijayvergia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Vijayvergia)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-importing-kibana-dashboards/120336/1 "2018-02-18T06:27:56Z")

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    Error message : 

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instance/beat.go:667 Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing 'setup.kibana.host' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml')  
Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing 'setup.kibana.host' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml')

`Below is my configuration in filebeat.yml.`

#============================== Dashboards =====================================  
setup.dashboards.enabled: true

#============================== Kibana =====================================  
setup.kibana:  
host: "[mydomain.com:5601](http://mydomain.com:5601)"  
username: "xxxx"  
password: "xxxxxxxx"

#============================== Logstash output =====================================  
output.logstash:  
hosts: ["[mydomain.com:5044](http://mydomain.com:5044)"]

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**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Vijayvergia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Vijayvergia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Vijayvergia)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-importing-kibana-dashboards/120336/2 "2018-02-18T07:44:24Z")

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Manage to resolve the issue. It was caused by hosts property defined wrongly as array object.

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-importing-kibana-dashboards/120336/3 "2018-02-19T15:36:19Z")

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Is the import working now?

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**Author:** ![Gaurav\_Vijayvergia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@Gaurav\_Vijayvergia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gaurav_Vijayvergia)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-importing-kibana-dashboards/120336/4 "2018-02-25T01:36:34Z")

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Yes.

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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 25, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-importing-kibana-dashboards/120336/5 "2018-03-25T01:39:29Z")

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