# Importing the index profiles from one environment to another(Index name are different)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-the-index-profiles-from-one-environment-to-another-index-name-are-different/292769>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 23, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-the-index-profiles-from-one-environment-to-another-index-name-are-different/292769 "2021-12-23T06:45:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-the-index-profiles-from-one-environment-to-another-index-name-are-different/292769/1 "2021-12-23T06:45:48Z")

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If we want to promote the Dashboards created in dev to upper environments what is the best practice? The index names will be different in upper environments and also possibility of sharing the same Elasticsearch cluster, say for dev and sit environments. We don't want to recreate the Visualizations/Dashboards again in new environment due to change in the index names.

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**Author:** ![majagrubic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/majagrubic/32/74459_2.png) [@majagrubic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/majagrubic)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-the-index-profiles-from-one-environment-to-another-index-name-are-different/292769/2 "2021-12-30T20:06:37Z")

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You can export the Dashboard object from Stack Management \> Saved Objects console and import it in the same way in another Kibana instance; however if your indices don't match between the two instances, the newly imported dashboard will be pretty much useless.

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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-the-index-profiles-from-one-environment-to-another-index-name-are-different/292769/3 "2022-01-05T17:56:23Z")

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So in that case we need to create the Visualizations/Dashboards all over again in each environments? This is will be a additional effort.

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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:** [February 2, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-the-index-profiles-from-one-environment-to-another-index-name-are-different/292769/4 "2022-02-02T17:57:09Z")

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