# How to safely update Kibana offline?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778 "2015-07-17T09:20:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Vega\_Moreno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_vega_moreno/32/3773_2.png) [@Carlos\_Vega\_Moreno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_Vega_Moreno)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778/1 "2015-07-17T09:20:40Z")

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Hi, I've a server without Internet access (due to security rules) and I would  
like to know how to safely update kibana.

For the kibana process, is it enough with just overwriting the kibana  
folder? Do I have to keep something in mind before updating? It is possible to backup the dashboards?

Greetings,

Carlos Vega

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778/2 "2015-07-17T12:44:13Z")

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All kibana configuration (dashboards, index patterns, etc..) are stored in .kibana index in your Elasticsearch cluster. So updating Kibana offline would just involve unzipping the new kibana distribution and moving over your kibana.yml from the older distribution.

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Vega\_Moreno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_vega_moreno/32/3773_2.png) [@Carlos\_Vega\_Moreno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_Vega_Moreno)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778/3 "2015-07-17T13:12:02Z")

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Thanks for your answer 😊

Is there a way to do a copy of the dashboards in case I want to move them to other place?

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778/4 "2015-07-17T15:40:04Z")

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Btw, I assume we're talking about Kibana 4, not Kibana 3 here. And yes, if you are running Kibana 4.1, you can export all saved objects in Settings \>\> Objects for archival or import into another system.

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_Vega\_Moreno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/carlos_vega_moreno/32/3773_2.png) [@Carlos\_Vega\_Moreno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Carlos_Vega_Moreno)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778/5 "2015-07-17T21:34:53Z")

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Oh ! they added the option, definitely I need to upgrade kibana from the 4 to the 4.1 😄  
Thanks again !  
I really love the ELK stack because of its community and constant updates!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778/6 "2015-07-18T02:49:39Z")

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You can (and should) snapshot the `.kibana` index and then save that somewhere.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-safely-update-kibana-offline/25778/7 "2017-07-06T14:16:18Z")

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