# Import dashboards etc via command line

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-etc-via-command-line/77830>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 8, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-etc-via-command-line/77830 "2017-03-08T14:09:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![juju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@juju](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juju)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-etc-via-command-line/77830/4 "2017-03-19T01:59:07Z")

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It's really a pity to have no default mechanisms to import/export dashboards/visualization/objects. That makes backup and sharing a lot more complicate than it should be.  
Especially when you look at \*beats and the import\_dashboards binary does exactly that.  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/import-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/import-dashboards.html)

There are plenty of thread on this subject

> [@How to backup/restore searches and dashboards](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-backup-restore-searches-and-dashboards/69223):
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> Hi, a cup of coffee and a doughnut if you explain how to "backup/restore" searches and dashboard selectively or all at once. Thanks! MarkD:-)

> [@Export Saved Objects via REST APi](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/export-saved-objects-via-rest-api/72028):
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> Hi, I'm trying to figure out the best way to programatically export all of the saved objects - Saved Searches, Visualizations, and Dashboard - as individual documents. I want to be able to create an SDLC around the Dashboard development process and I need to be able to capture anything/everything that a final Dashboard is dependent on, and then store that into a repository for versioning. So far, the only way I've been able to find (at least per the documentation) to export these items is thr…

> [@Importing dashboards via CLI 5.1.1](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-dashboards-via-cli-5-1-1/70236):
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> What I want to do is import the .json dashboards that Kibana generates with: Management -\> Saved Objects -\> Export And then import them via command line or something that can be automated and doesn't require me to use the web interface. Is this possible to do ?

Hopefully will make it soon.

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