# Exporting to report to PDF in Kibana generates reports with empty data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-to-report-to-pdf-in-kibana-generates-reports-with-empty-data/91966>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 5, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-to-report-to-pdf-in-kibana-generates-reports-with-empty-data/91966 "2017-07-05T17:30:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![pobrejuanito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/0ea827/32.png) [@pobrejuanito](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pobrejuanito)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-to-report-to-pdf-in-kibana-generates-reports-with-empty-data/91966/1 "2017-07-05T17:30:13Z")

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Hi, I am trying to create a pdf report from one of my saved dashboards but when I download the generated PDF report, the visualizations are empty.

What can I do to solve this?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-to-report-to-pdf-in-kibana-generates-reports-with-empty-data/91966/2 "2017-07-05T19:34:36Z")

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Hmm, usually this has to do with your configuration settings. Can you provide your kibana.yml? Are you getting any errors in the Kibana console?

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**Author:** ![pobrejuanito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/0ea827/32.png) [@pobrejuanito](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pobrejuanito)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-to-report-to-pdf-in-kibana-generates-reports-with-empty-data/91966/3 "2017-07-05T19:44:18Z")

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Hi Lukas,

Where do I get that? We are subscribing to the cloud elastic service.

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-to-report-to-pdf-in-kibana-generates-reports-with-empty-data/91966/4 "2017-07-05T22:22:42Z")

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Hmm, okay then that shouldn't be your problem. Could you create a simple markdown visualization and see if you can export it to PDF? Perhaps the data is taking too long to come back from Elasticsearch and you're getting timeout errors.

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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:** [August 2, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exporting-to-report-to-pdf-in-kibana-generates-reports-with-empty-data/91966/5 "2017-08-02T22:22:48Z")

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