# Importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-create-the-kibana-loader/118637>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 6, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-create-the-kibana-loader/118637 "2018-02-06T11:52:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![BezVeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BezVeze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BezVeze)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-create-the-kibana-loader/118637/1 "2018-02-06T11:52:22Z")

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Ok, im pretty sure that i know what is the deal but i cant figure it out how i can manage to work...

the thing is when i start the filebeat setup -E action it cannot install the dashboards in the kibana  
it gives me an error:

Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version:HTTP GET request to /api/status fails: fail to execute the HTTP GET request: Get [http://IP](http://IP) ADDRESS:5601/api/status: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers). Response: .

and when i try to access the kibana with the provided link that gives me as an error

[http://IP](http://IP) ADDRESS:5601/api/status:

it parse me an 404 file not found in json format output from the kibana

i manage to track that when i access [http://IP](http://IP) ADDRESS:5601/api/status WITHOUTH the : colon at the end of the string it gives me the status of the kibana in a json format ...

so i think filebeat is trying to install the dashboards to a kibana with a bad url or something...

im running kibana 6 and filebeat 6 as well,

does anybody have the same issue and manage to work-it out somehow???

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-create-the-kibana-loader/118637/2 "2018-02-06T14:12:05Z")

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HI @BezVeze,

It looks like a firewalling issue. I'm wondering, are you doing your manual tests from the same host where you run Filebeat?

Best regards

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**Author:** ![BezVeze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BezVeze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BezVeze)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-create-the-kibana-loader/118637/3 "2018-02-07T08:48:24Z")

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Hey, it was a Firewall thing, i forgot that i hide kibana behind firewall on my gce env,

Thanks a lot.

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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:** [March 7, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-create-the-kibana-loader/118637/4 "2018-03-07T08:48:36Z")

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