# Importing Existing Beat Dashboards in offline server **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [December 14, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-existing-beat-dashboards-in-offline-server/69075 "2016-12-14T19:42:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ravikumar\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ravikumar\_G](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ravikumar_G)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-existing-beat-dashboards-in-offline-server/69075/1 "2016-12-14T19:42:16Z")
Hi I'm trying to install Metric dashboard its my first time trying this Downloaded .zip beats tried still by defaults its taking to [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-5.1.1.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-5.1.1.zip) tried to edit script looks like import\_dashboards is not human readable [root@elk-cclab38 metricbeat]# ./scripts/import\_dashboards /root/beats-dashboards-master.zip fail to set the mapping. Error: Put [http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/\_mapping/search:](http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/_mapping/search:) dial tcp 127.0.0.1:9200: getsockopt: connection refused Create temporary directory /tmp/tmp813730817 Downloading [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-5.1.1.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-5.1.1.zip) ^C [root@elk-cclab38 metricbeat]# ---
**Author:** ![Ravikumar\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ravikumar\_G](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ravikumar_G)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-existing-beat-dashboards-in-offline-server/69075/2 "2016-12-14T19:47:57Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/master/import-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/master/import-dashboards.html) [root@elk-cclab38 metricbeat]# ./scripts/import\_dashboards -file /root/beats-dashboards-5.1.1.zip fail to set the mapping. Error: Put [http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/\_mapping/search:](http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/_mapping/search:) dial tcp 127.0.0.1:9200: getsockopt: connection refused Create temporary directory /tmp/tmp964028833 Unzip archive /tmp/tmp964028833 /tmp/tmp964028833/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/filebeat /tmp/tmp964028833/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/heartbeat /tmp/tmp964028833/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat Import directory /tmp/tmp964028833/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat/index-pattern Import index to /.kibana/index-pattern/metricbeat-\* from /tmp/tmp964028833/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat/index-pattern/metricbeat.json ERROR: couldn't load json. Error: Put [http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/metricbeat-](http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/metricbeat-)_: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:9200: getsockopt: connection refused fail to import index-pattern: fail to load directory /tmp/tmp964028833/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat/index-pattern: error loading /tmp/tmp964028833/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat/index-pattern/metricbeat.json: couldn't load json. Error: Put [http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/metricbeat-](http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/metricbeat-)_: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:9200: getsockopt: connection refused [root@elk-cclab38 metricbeat]# ---
**Author:** ![Ravikumar\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ravikumar\_G](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ravikumar_G)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-existing-beat-dashboards-in-offline-server/69075/3 "2016-12-14T20:11:46Z")
I think i figured out 🙂 [root@elk-cclab38 metricbeat]# ./scripts/import\_dashboards -file /root/beats-dashboards-5.1.1.zip -es [http://10.251.33.130:9200](http://10.251.33.130:9200) Create temporary directory /tmp/tmp679203075 Unzip archive /tmp/tmp679203075 /tmp/tmp679203075/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/filebeat /tmp/tmp679203075/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/heartbeat /tmp/tmp679203075/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat Import directory /tmp/tmp679203075/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat/index-pattern Import index to /.kibana/index-pattern/metricbeat-\* from /tmp/tmp679203075/beats-dashboards-5.1.1/metricbeat/index-pattern/metricbeat.json ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-existing-beat-dashboards-in-offline-server/69075/4 "2017-01-11T20:11:59Z")
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