Import only beats relevant dashoard from the whole default dashboards

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Hi there,
is there some best practice or a trick for this: as everyone knowsthe default dashboards are quite many. How / What can I do it if I only want to import the default stuff (dashboards, templates and so on) for metricbeat? Any ideas?
Many thanks and kind regards
Stefano

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Hi Stefano. There is an existing feature request for this capability. Can you please add a comment there expressing your need? It will help us prioritize this issue in our roadmap.

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Good morning Nick,
really? That is great news! We at Metronom (gold subscription) have this issue since a few years on the table. Sample dashboards are a good idea and it makes sense to offer them. But: if you just want to show a few of them (either: e.g. only metricbeats or: specific ones of one type) then it makes no sense to do it as it is done right now.

  1. Beats / dashboards / related objects get more and more from version (minor / major) to version.
  2. you have dead stuff in your system that noone needs - this goes against my / our housekeeping policy
  3. visibility for our customers is a nitghtmare. Keep in mind: there can be already quite some dashboards / objects made by internal customers as well

The wish is just to pick that objects /dashboards I or the internal customer need. You could do it by offering a list with checkboxes. But of course you could also still say: I want them all. These are my two cents on the topic. Feel free to discuss it.

By the way is there a trick right now? E.g. unpacking the metricbeat package and deleting in specific directories all the objects I do not need and therefore only installing what I need?
Kind regards
Stefano

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Hi Stefano,

Sorry I wasn’t very clear. It would be best to add your case to the GitHub issue I linked.

At this time there is no workaround for selecting specific dashboards.

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Sure, I will do it.
kind regrds
Stefano

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Hmm, but what about this trick: Load only some metricbeat dashboards
Did someone try something like this?
kind regards

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