# Export/Import Kibana's Dashboard & Visu

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-import-kibanas-dashboard-visu/125147>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 22, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-import-kibanas-dashboard-visu/125147 "2018-03-22T09:17:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ben96](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ben96/32/28334_2.png) [@Ben96](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben96)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-import-kibanas-dashboard-visu/125147/1 "2018-03-22T09:17:39Z")

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Hello guys,

i just did some quick search but still not finding what i was looking for.

Here my needs :

I wanna Export & Import all my dashboards & visualization BUT not with le UI, i need to do that with CLI/API but i don't find good way to do this.

Is anyone already did that ? And how to ?

Thanks in advance for reading and replying.

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-import-kibanas-dashboard-visu/125147/2 "2018-03-22T15:15:57Z")

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There is an API for [exporting dashboards](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/core_plugins/kibana/server/routes/api/export/index.js) along with associated saved objects. There is not official documentation yet because the API is subject to change.

Kibana's existing API for interacting with Kibana saved objects can be explored [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/master/src/server/saved_objects/routes)

There are a few open issues for better export support [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4288](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4288) and [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/16831](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/16831)

If the existing APIs do not work out for you then I would recommend writing scripts that just directly make use of ElasticSearch REST APIs to interact with kibana index.

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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:** [April 19, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-import-kibanas-dashboard-visu/125147/3 "2018-04-19T15:16:08Z")

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