# Exporting saved dashboards from one Kibana to another

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-saved-dashboards-from-one-kibana-to-another/34404>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 12, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-saved-dashboards-from-one-kibana-to-another/34404 "2015-11-12T11:07:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![trekr5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@trekr5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/trekr5)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2015, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-saved-dashboards-from-one-kibana-to-another/34404/1 "2015-11-12T11:07:01Z")

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Hello,

We currently run an ELK stack on windows and am in the process of moving this from a windows platform to ubuntu. We are running Elasticsearch 1.7.3

We have custom Kibana3 dashboards that I would like to preserve and port over to ubuntu.

Reading through documentation, it appears that the kibana dashboards customizations are stored in the .kibana and kibana-int indicies. Would the best way to export a kibana dashboard be to:

1. Take a snapshot of a kibana index and then restore it on the ubuntu platform?

2. Which index holds kibana3 dashboards?

3. Which index holds kibana4 dashboards because we have a situation where in prod, we have both kibana3 and kibana4 dashboards?

Many thanks

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-saved-dashboards-from-one-kibana-to-another/34404/2 "2015-11-14T18:41:30Z")

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1. A snapshot would work, but bulk-copying the small amount of documents we're talking about using a small script might be easier.
2. kibana-int
3. .kibana

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-saved-dashboards-from-one-kibana-to-another/34404/3 "2017-07-06T14:09:04Z")

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