# How to import vsphere dashboards in Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-in-kibana/218793 "2020-02-11T14:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quentinotd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quentinotd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Quentinotd)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-in-kibana/218793/1 "2020-02-11T14:47:23Z")
Hello, I've been using metricbeat with an elk stack for couple days and i'm now trying to get dashboards for vsphere. I've read the doc on the wiki, and they mention that there are dashboards available for Vsphere module, but i cannot find them on my dashboard panel. So after couple searches i've found said dashboard inside the Github repo : metricbeat-vsphere-host.json and metricbeat-vsphere-vm.json But i can't seem to import them using the json format. I also tried to put them inside the dashboard directory. thanks for your time, Regards. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Andrew22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew22)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-in-kibana/218793/2 "2020-02-11T15:39:49Z")
i am also having this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Andrew22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew22)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-in-kibana/218793/3 "2020-02-11T16:04:35Z")
i moved the vsphere dashboards into the dashboard directory and recieved this [root@jb metricbeat]# /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat -c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml -path.home /usr/share/metricbeat -path.config /etc/metricbeat -path.data /var/lib/metricbeat setup --dashboards Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable) Exiting: Failed to import dashboard: Failed to load directory /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana/7/dashboard: error loading /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana/7/dashboard/metricbeat-vsphere-host.json: failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:0ebd0be0-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7'. Preview of field's value: '{filter=, query={query=, language=kuery}}'. Response: {"objects":[{"id":"0ebd0be0-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7","type":"dashboard","error":{"message":"failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:0ebd0be0-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da... (truncated) error loading /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana/7/dashboard/metricbeat-vsphere-vm.json: failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:8a2d1540-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7'. Preview of field's value: '{filter=, query={query=, language=kuery}}'. Response: {"objects":[{"id":"8a2d1540-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7","type":"dashboard","error":{"message":"failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:8a2d1540-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da... (truncated) > Blockquote ---
**Author:** ![hendry.lim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hendry.lim/32/71328_2.png) [@hendry.lim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hendry.lim)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-in-kibana/218793/4 "2020-02-16T23:42:23Z")
The two vsphere dashboards in the github are not compatible with current Elastic 7.x version. You need to read the json file and re-create the dashboards manually. This is exactly what I have done in my environment. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Andrew22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew22)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-in-kibana/218793/5 "2020-02-18T15:02:23Z")
does anyone know if there is there anyway to make them usable in the current version? recreating all of those dashboards seems like a very big task ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-in-kibana/218793/6 "2020-03-17T15:02:26Z")
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