# Import Dashboards on non standard indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-on-non-standard-indexes/81712>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 9, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-on-non-standard-indexes/81712 "2017-04-09T13:40:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fnzv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@fnzv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fnzv)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-on-non-standard-indexes/81712/1 "2017-04-09T13:40:29Z")

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Hello,  
I was trying to import some of the default beats dashboards via :  
/usr/share/packetbeat/scripts/import\_dashboards -i customindexname -beat PacketBeat  
But i cannot see them on Kibana with custom index names but i see them correctly with the default index names such as (filebeat, metricbeat, packetbeat..), i'm doing something wrong?  
I want to use the default dashboards on indexes that aren't metricbeat,packetbeat, filebeat-(date)

Do i need to make some configuration on Kibana or i'm missing some index settings?

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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:** [April 10, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-on-non-standard-indexes/81712/2 "2017-04-10T03:26:59Z")

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You will need to edit the json, or the visualisations, to point to the new indices.

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**Author:** ![fnzv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e36b37/32.png) [@fnzv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fnzv)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-on-non-standard-indexes/81712/3 "2017-04-10T20:32:42Z")

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Could you elaborate more?  
From the Kibana dashboard i tried to edit Visualizations & Dashboards on "Edit Saved Objects" but i can't find anywhere the index pattern "packetbeat" to edit with my "customindexname-packebeat".  
How could i edit it directly from ES?

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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:** [April 11, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-on-non-standard-indexes/81712/4 "2017-04-11T00:21:46Z")

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You can't, you need to export things and manually edit them.

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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:** [May 9, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-on-non-standard-indexes/81712/5 "2017-05-09T00:32:53Z")

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