Importing beats dashboards from file system fails

Elastic Stack Beats
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Using Metricbeat 6.7.2, Elasticsearch 6.7.0, Kibana 6.7.0

I'd like to be able to "pre-load" selected Beats dashboards into a Kibana/Elasticsearch instance before setting up any client Beats instances or modules. When I create the cluster instance, I also bring in the Metricbeat and Packetbeat JSON files for dashboards, copied from /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana.

When I attempt to use the Kibana UI to load the JSON files from /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana, I receive the error message: "Saved objects file format is invalid and cannot be imported."

Before I dig into the code, could someone enlighten me as to why the dashboard JSON files cannot be imported directly as "saved objects"?

Thanks in advance,

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Rather than deleting the question, please answer with your new approach. Others might have the same question and can learn from it :slight_smile:

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Rather than attempting to import the dashboards from the file system, I fired up a local Elasticsearch/Kibana/Metricbeat/Packetbeat/Logstash combo.

Then I exported the dashboards from that, and imported those dashboards into my existing Kibana instance.

It's a bit circuitous but it worked.

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