# Kibana dashboard fails

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails/129908
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 28, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails/129908 "2018-04-28T09:30:46Z")
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### Author: ![phenric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@phenric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/phenric)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails/129908/1 "2018-04-28T09:30:46Z")

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Hi,

I'm installing ELK by following [this tutorial](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-ubuntu-16-04#generate-ssl-certificates) and [this one](https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-and-configure-elastic-stack-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-on-ubuntu-17-04).

I try to use Elasticsearch as search engine by syncing my MySQL and my Mongo DBs to Logstash and then index databases in Elasticsearch. If I use Logstash as intermediate, this is for creating a admin panel where I could see logs and also specific informations about the systems (as CPU, RAM, users per day, etc).

However, I downloaded beats-dashboards-1.3.1, I unzipped it, and I tried to launch it via ./load.sh. And I got this error,

```
Loading dashboards to http://localhost:9200 in .kibana
{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/.kibana]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""}}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"missing authentication token for REST request [/.kibana]","header":{"WWW-Authenticate":"Basic realm=\"security\" charset=\"UTF-8\""}},"status":401}{"error":"Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported","status":406}Loading search Cache-transactions:

```

Followed by a list of errors like this one (all the JSON files listed in /beats-dashboards-1.3.1/dashboards/visualization),

> Loading search DB-transactions:  
> {"error":"Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not supported","status":406}

I also verified my kibana's user and password by using `curl -XGET -u kibana 'http://localhost:9200/'`

Can anyone help me ?

Thanks for the help !

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### Author: ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails/129908/2 "2018-04-30T19:53:17Z")

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Did you configure the Elasticsearch authentication in Beats before importing the dashboards?

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### Author: ![phenric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@phenric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/phenric)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails/129908/3 "2018-04-30T20:57:48Z")

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Hi thank you for your reply. Yes I did it and I found the solution. I had to launch via `./load.sh -u usr:pass`

Also, I didn't realise that beats-dashboards is obsolete. I followed an old tutorial (2016) which is incompatible with the new version (6.2.0). So I installed Beats with Metricbeat and everything seems fine.

Thank you for your interest

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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 28, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails/129908/4 "2018-05-28T20:57:52Z")

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