# Importing third party filebeat dashboard into Kibana (SecurityOnion)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-third-party-filebeat-dashboard-into-kibana-securityonion/331076>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 28, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-third-party-filebeat-dashboard-into-kibana-securityonion/331076 "2023-04-28T16:31:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![KhemaisKebaili](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/khemaiskebaili/32/120394_2.png) [@KhemaisKebaili](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KhemaisKebaili)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-third-party-filebeat-dashboard-into-kibana-securityonion/331076/1 "2023-04-28T16:31:26Z")

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I have a SecurityOnion instance that's hosting an ELK 8.6.1 stack. I enabled the threat intelligence module and I have data coming in and could be visualized using the discovery tool. However , and from my research, when it comes to securityOnion the only way to have the filebeats' default dashboard is to import it as a saved object. I tried installing the filebeat package on a different host and going to filebeat \> Kibana \> dashboards and trying to convert the json file for the specific dashboard I want to an ndjson but apparently the types are not compatible. In the original json file, some objects within the top dashboard objects are valid JSON objects and when I try to import the ndjson after conversion into kibana it says that it is expecting a text for that field.  
I tried looking online for valid ndjson instances of the dashboards but I can't seem to find any. Is there a simple way to achieve what am trying to achieve?

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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:** [May 26, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/importing-third-party-filebeat-dashboard-into-kibana-securityonion/331076/2 "2023-05-26T18:32:06Z")

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