# Export and import via curl kibana's dashboards and visualizations **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [February 16, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842 "2016-02-16T05:59:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LiorK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@LiorK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LiorK)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/1 "2016-02-16T05:59:56Z")
hi there, I'm trying to get all the dashboards into json without the UI of the kibana itself (using curl). at the moment , I succeed getting the dashboards but to open them on another instance I need to have the visualizations inside as well. My problem is to get the visualizations from kibana and export them to json via curl... how i can do it? ideas? one more thing, using the Export Everything on the kibana didn't gave me any json file or anything at all. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajeev_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/2 "2016-02-19T08:40:14Z")
Hi @LiorK, I am also trying to import dashboard using kibana. Can you tell me how you succeeded as I am trying curl -XPUT [http://localhost:9200/.kibana/dashboard/testdashboard](http://localhost:9200/.kibana/dashboard/testdashboard) -d '{[ { "\_id": "D1", "\_type": "dashboard", "\_source": { "title": "D1", "hits": 0, "description": "", "panelsJSON": "[{"id":"V1","type":"visualization","panelIndex":1,"size\_x":3,"size\_y":2,"col":1,"row":1}]", "optionsJSON": "{"darkTheme":false}", "uiStateJSON": "{}", "version": 1, "timeRestore": false, "kibanaSavedObjectMeta": { "searchSourceJSON": "{"filter":[{"query":{"query\_string":{"query":"\*","analyze\_wildcard":true}}}]}" } } } ]}' and getting error as : % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1024 100 469 100 555 14656 17343 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 17343{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception","reason":"failed to parse"}],"type":"mapper\_parsing\_exception","reason":"failed to parse","caused\_by":{"type":"json\_parse\_exception","reason":"Unexpected character ('[' (code 91)): was expecting either valid name character (for unquoted name) or double-quote (for quoted) to start field name\n at [Source: org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.InputStreamStreamInput@77224b66; line: 1, column: 3]"}},"status":400} Kindly suggest some points. ---
**Author:** ![pemontto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pemontto/32/3908_2.png) [@pemontto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pemontto)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/3 "2016-02-19T19:10:10Z")
I use a Python script that pulls the dashboards I want from ES, enumerates the panels in the JSON of the dashboard, grabs those visualisations from ES and then looks for the index-patterns each of the visualisations uses and grabs those. Once I have all these documents I index them to the target index/ES host. Right now I'm using an index template to avoid dynamic mapping issues (which I have seen), in the future I'll be pulling the mapping from the source index which will be more robust in supporting new Kibana features and plugins. ---
**Author:** ![LiorK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@LiorK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LiorK)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/4 "2016-02-19T19:33:57Z")
currectly i have script importing all the dashboards, visualisations and searches. and exporting to another .kibana index. @Rajeev_Gaurav - Note- gettin the dashboards alon will not help you if it has visualisations and also visualisations that uses searches. you will need those objects as well. - your dashboard D1 hav visualisations inside? can you try to reach the following url [http://localhost:9200/.kibana/dashboard/D1/\_source](http://localhost:9200/.kibana/dashboard/D1/_source) @pemontto can you please explain how dynamic mapping is related to this? ---
**Author:** ![pemontto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pemontto/32/3908_2.png) [@pemontto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pemontto)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/5 "2016-02-19T22:04:21Z")
Assuming you understand Elasticsearch dynamic mapping, an examples where this goes awry is where Kibana has a time field, specifically the "timeFrom " and "timeTo" in the dashboard document type. These fields can be a full ISO8601 date or relative like "now-3y". If Elasticsearch first sees a document with an ISO8601 date the field will be dynamically set to a date field, now when you attempt to index that document with the "now-3y" you'll get a data type mismatch and it will fail to index all those dashboards. So the solution is to either copy across the mapping from the source index, or use an index-template. Again I'd suggest updating the mapping from the source for future proofing. ---
**Author:** ![Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Rajeev\_Gaurav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajeev_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/6 "2016-02-23T13:16:31Z")
I tried [https://github.com/elastic/beats-dashboards](https://github.com/elastic/beats-dashboards) but problem with this is that it does not support source meta data ("\_id") and thus It is not usable as i was using meta data for uniqueness of visualization and their mapping in [dashboard.So](http://dashboard.So) can suggestv points on that. ---
**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/7 "2016-02-23T14:08:42Z")
I would post this question in the Beats channel: [https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/beats) ---
**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/8 "2017-06-28T13:09:07Z")
How to export and import he pre configured dashboards Kibana ( 5.4.0) can pls anyone help me ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-and-import-via-curl-kibanas-dashboards-and-visualizations/41842/10 "2022-11-04T04:14:38Z")