# How to take backup of dashboards in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-backup-of-dashboards-in-kibana/131416>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-backup-of-dashboards-in-kibana/131416 "2018-05-11T07:12:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-backup-of-dashboards-in-kibana/131416/2 "2018-05-11T18:35:08Z")

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There's a few options.

1. In the UI, management -\> saved objects -\> export everything. This will get searches, visualizations, and dashboards. Index patterns will have to be re-added
2. There's a newer API for exporting dashboards, although it's still undocumented. [Kibana import/export dashboard api](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-import-export-dashboard-api/108180) offers some pointers on how to use it.
3. At a low level, saving the .kibana index. All kibana state is saved in the .kibana index, so you can snapshot/restore, or use another tool to dump all the documents.

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