Heartbeat automatic import dashboards failed

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Hey there,
using ELK v.7.15.2 I was trying to import Heartbeat dashboards into Kibana.
I set the following parameters:

setup.dashboards.enabled: true

but I am facing the following error:

Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to import the dashboards in Kibana: Error importing directory /usr/share/heartbeat/kibana: Failed to import dashboard: The directory /usr/share/heartbeat/kibana/7 is empty, nothing to import

Into the /kibana/7 folder there is a subfolder named dashboard with a ndjson file. is that correct? I cannot find any clear documentation about that.

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Hi @rschirin

Can you comment that back out and just try

heartbeat setup -e

Which will do the whole setup (which only needs to be run once)

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I cannot do that since I am using containers (with docker-compose) and automatic deploy of different Heartbeat instances

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What version of hearbeat are you using?

Recent versions of heartbeat do not have dashboards.. the ./kibana directory is empty. I checked all the way back to 7.7.0, i.e. there are no dashboards to load / setup.

Just On a side note for beats setup.. you may not want to load the dashboards with every container deploy either that is wasteful as well / slows down the deployment (example pretty heavy for filebeat / metricbeat)... that said it should work..

We see some customer with a pattern such as deploy a "canary/config" deployment that loads / setups and then the actual "workload" containers that just run.

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I am using 7.15 heartbeat version.
Since ES disks will be permanent, probably I will use the "canary approach" at least at the first time. If I try to use
heartbeat setup -e
should I populate any folder or similar?

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No, it looks like for heartbeat setup just sets up the index template no need to populate anything.

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Sorry @stephenb , so I am not understanding the reason I should use setup parameter :sob:

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Every beat has a setup command.

The setup command loads and setups up the associated assets (index templates, ingest pipelines, dashoard, ML Jobs etc..etc..) in kibana and Elasticsearch.

It really only needs to be run once per version of the beat. (or if you make some other significant changes but that is not really the case for heartbeat)

You run setup once... to set up the assets and then deploy 1... or 1,000 heartbeats

Some beats and modules have many assets (filebeat) some have few heartbeat.

See the docs here

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