# Kibana 5.6 - Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to get the Kibana version

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-get-the-kibana-version/115365>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [January 12, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-get-the-kibana-version/115365 "2018-01-12T20:45:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdambly](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jdambly/32/44286_2.png) [@jdambly](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jdambly)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-get-the-kibana-version/115365/1 "2018-01-12T20:45:24Z")

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for some reason I cannot load the sample dashboard, and ideas on how I can fix this? I am using kibana 5.6

```auto
ansible@atlas01:~$ sudo /usr/share/auditbeat/bin/auditbeat setup -E setup.dashboards.kibana_index=.kibana-5.x -E setup.dashboards.enabled=true -E setup.dashboards.always_kiaba=true --dashboards -path.config /etc/auditbeat -e
2018/01/12 20:29:57.046938 beat.go:436: INFO Home path: [/usr/share/auditbeat/bin] Config path: [/etc/auditbeat] Data path: [/usr/share/auditbeat/bin/data] Logs path: [/usr/share/auditbeat/bin/logs]
2018/01/12 20:29:57.047062 metrics.go:23: INFO Metrics logging every 30s
2018/01/12 20:29:57.047173 beat.go:443: INFO Beat UUID: 357c5057-48e9-4b38-899a-512760f837aa
2018/01/12 20:29:57.047217 beat.go:203: INFO Setup Beat: auditbeat; Version: 6.1.1
2018/01/12 20:29:57.048061 module.go:76: INFO Beat name: atlas01
2018/01/12 20:29:57.048188 cfgwarn.go:11: WARN BETA: The audit.kernel metricset is a beta feature
2018/01/12 20:29:57.049021 cfgwarn.go:23: WARN EXPERIMENTAL: The audit.file metricset is an experimental feature
2018/01/12 20:29:57.049263 client.go:69: INFO Kibana url: http://kibana01.mgt.sv5.nskope.net:5601
2018/01/12 20:29:57.058554 beat.go:635: CRIT Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version:fail to unmarshal the response from GET http://kibana01.mgt.sv5.nskope.net:5601/api/status: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field kibanaVersionResponse.version of type struct { Number string "json:\"number\""; Snapshot bool "json:\"build_snapshot\"" }. Response: {"name":"kibana01","version":"5.6.5","buildNum":15592,"buildSha":"80f98787eb860a4e7ef9b6500cf84b65e331d1fc","uuid":"dd391d64-8a93-4821-a09a-5ed999f4e38b","status":{"overall":{"state":"green","title":"Green","nickname":"Looking good","icon":"success",... (truncated)
Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version:fail to unmarshal the response from GET http://kibana01.mgt.sv5.nskope.net:5601/api/status: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field kibanaVersionResponse.version of type struct { Number string "json:\"number\""; Snapshot bool "json:\"build_snapshot\"" }. Response: {"name":"kibana01","version":"5.6.5","buildNum":15592,"buildSha":"80f98787eb860a4e7ef9b6500cf84b65e331d1fc","uuid":"dd391d64-8a93-4821-a09a-5ed999f4e38b","status":{"overall":{"state":"green","title":"Green","nickname":"Looking good","icon":"success",... (truncated)

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-get-the-kibana-version/115365/2 "2018-01-16T17:30:45Z")

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> [@jdambly](#):
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> -E setup.dashboards.always\_kiaba=true

Looks like there's a typo in the CLI args.

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-get-the-kibana-version/115365/3 "2018-01-17T02:19:48Z")

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I hit the same issue today.

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/6090>

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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:** [November 4, 2022, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-6-error-importing-kibana-dashboards-fail-to-get-the-kibana-version/115365/4 "2022-11-04T05:10:23Z")

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