# How to import the Beats Kibana dashboards offline into elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-the-beats-kibana-dashboards-offline-into-elasticsearch/66130>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-the-beats-kibana-dashboards-offline-into-elasticsearch/66130 "2016-11-15T15:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-the-beats-kibana-dashboards-offline-into-elasticsearch/66130/1 "2016-11-15T15:29:17Z")

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I am looking for a option to import the beats kibana dashboards ([https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-5.0.0.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-5.0.0.zip)) offline using the ./scripts/import\_dashboards scripts.

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**Author:** ![dedemorton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dedemorton/32/84409_2.png) [@dedemorton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dedemorton)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-the-beats-kibana-dashboards-offline-into-elasticsearch/66130/2 "2016-11-15T19:35:23Z")

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Hi. Have you looked at all the options described in the documentation here? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/5.0/import-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/5.0/import-dashboards.html)

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-the-beats-kibana-dashboards-offline-into-elasticsearch/66130/3 "2016-11-16T10:28:40Z")

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You can pass to the `import_dashboards` script the path to a zip archive that you have it locally stored, in the `-file` option. You just need to copy the zip archive with the dashboard on your host.

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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:** [December 6, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-the-beats-kibana-dashboards-offline-into-elasticsearch/66130/4 "2016-12-06T15:29:28Z")

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