How to only load enabled-module dashboards with `filebeat setup`

[brsolomon (Brad Solomon)]

It seems that the default behavior of filebeat setup --dashboards is to load all dashboards rather than just dashboards for the modules enabled via config or --modules.

Is there a way to only have filebeat setup --dashboards load Kibana dashboards for one specific module? Otherwise, it takes a significant amount of time for filebeat setup to run and load about 80 dashboards that we don't use.

Reproducible example from docker.elastic.co/beats/filebeat:8.5.3:

cat << EOF > /tmp/filebeat.yml
filebeat.config:
  modules:
    path: \${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
    reload.enabled: false
filebeat.overwrite_pipelines: true
filebeat.modules:
  - module: suricata
    eve:
      enabled: true
      var.paths: ["/var/log/suricata/eve.json"]
setup.kibana:
  host: kibana-8-kb-http:5601
  protocol: http
  username: REDACTED
  password: REDACTED
output.elasticsearch:
  hosts: ["elastic8-es-http:9200"]
  protocol: https
  ssl:
    verification_mode: none
  username: REDACTED
  password: REDACTED
  index: "suricata-eve-%{[agent.version]}"
setup.dashboards:
  enabled: true
  index: "suricata-eve-*"
setup.template:
  enabled: true
  name: "suricata-eve-%{[agent.version]}"
  pattern: "suricata-eve-%{[agent.version]}"
  overwrite: true
  settings:
    index.number_of_shards: 5
    index.number_of_replicas: 1
setup.ilm:
  enabled: true
  policy_name: 90-days-default
EOF

filebeat setup \
    -e \
    --path.config /tmp \
    --pipelines \
    --dashboards \
    --index-management \
    --modules suricata

Note: the setup above is for a Filebeat->Kafka->Logstash->Elasticsearch pipeline.