# Import dashboards with different index name than .kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-with-different-index-name-than-kibana/71146>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 10, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-with-different-index-name-than-kibana/71146 "2017-01-10T19:53:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maxwell\_Flanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Maxwell\_Flanders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maxwell_Flanders)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-with-different-index-name-than-kibana/71146/1 "2017-01-10T19:53:11Z")

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I am trying to set up metricbeat and import the sample dashboards provided here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-sample-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-sample-dashboards.html)

However, we use a different index name to store our kibana information than .kibana. Is there a command line option I can pass in when i run the `./scripts/import_dashboards` script in order to tell it to import to the correct directory??

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-with-different-index-name-than-kibana/71146/2 "2017-01-10T23:13:42Z")

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There is a `-k` CLI flag for specifying the kibana index.

```auto
$ ./scripts/import_dashboards -h

Usage: ./import_dashboards [options]

  ...

  -k string
    	Kibana index (default ".kibana")

```

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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:** [January 31, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dashboards-with-different-index-name-than-kibana/71146/3 "2017-01-31T19:54:08Z")

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