/api/kibana/dashboards/import -d @export.json
```
I didn't have to make any changes to the exported json in order for this to work. (Also note that here I used an ApiKey for authentication, but api keys aren't strictly necessary for this API... any method of authentication will work.)
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### Author:  [@vaclav1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaclav1)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2021, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-import-api-fails/265603/3 "2021-03-01T07:18:54Z")
Helo Luke, thanks for your answer. Will try it out, colleague of mine does it in python. And will get back if this will not work.
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### Author:  [@vaclav1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaclav1)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2021, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-import-api-fails/265603/4 "2021-03-01T08:52:58Z")
Ok I have got a following issue while importing:
```auto
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-03-01T08:48:11Z","tags":["warning","savedobjects-service"],"pid":68610,"message":"Failed to transform document [object Object]. Transform: index-pattern:6.5.0\nDoc: {\"id\":\"15eb5d40-8b12-11ea-b95c-fd8b76e35998\",\"type\":\"index-pattern\",\"migrationVersion\":{},\"namespace\":\"datasquad-space\",\"updated_at\":\"2021-03-01T08:48:11.331Z\",\"references\":[]}"}
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2021-03-01T08:48:11Z","tags":["error","http"],"pid":68610,"message":"TypeError: Cannot read property 'type' of undefined\n at migrateAttributeTypeAndAttributeTypeMeta (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/plugins/data/server/saved_objects/index_pattern_migrations.js:30:26)\n at /app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/node_modules/lodash/lodash.js:5135:46\n at tryTransformDoc (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/migrations/core/document_migrator.js:225:22)\n at migrateProp (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/migrations/core/document_migrator.js:282:11)\n at applyMigrations (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/migrations/core/document_migrator.js:181:11)\n at DocumentMigrator.transformAndValidate [as transformDoc] (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/migrations/core/document_migrator.js:160:43)\n at DocumentMigrator.doc [as migrate] (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/migrations/core/document_migrator.js:53:19)\n at KibanaMigrator.migrateDocument (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/migrations/kibana/kibana_migrator.js:166:34)\n at expectedResults.map.expectedBulkGetResult (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/service/lib/repository.js:320:74)\n at Array.map ()\n at SavedObjectsRepository.bulkCreate (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/service/lib/repository.js:275:49)\n at SavedObjectsClient.bulkCreate (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/saved_objects/service/saved_objects_client.js:46:35)\n at EncryptedSavedObjectsClientWrapper.bulkCreate (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/x-pack/plugins/encrypted_saved_objects/server/saved_objects/encrypted_saved_objects_client_wrapper.js:88:93)\n at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)"}
{"type":"error","@timestamp":"2021-03-01T08:48:11Z","tags":[],"pid":68610,"level":"error","error":{"message":"Internal Server Error","name":"Error","stack":"Error: Internal Server Error\n at HapiResponseAdapter.toInternalError (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/http/router/response_adapter.js:69:19)\n at Router.handle (/app/global/kibana/kibana-7.9.2-linux-x86_64/src/core/server/http/router/router.js:170:34)\n at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)"},"url":{"protocol":null,"slashes":null,"auth":null,"host":null,"port":null,"hostname":null,"hash":null,"search":null,"query":{},"pathname":"/api/kibana/dashboards/import","path":"/api/kibana/dashboards/import","href":"/api/kibana/dashboards/import"},"message":"Internal Server Error"}
{"type":"response","@timestamp":"2021-03-01T08:48:11Z","tags":["api"],"pid":68610,"method":"post","statusCode":500,"req":{"url":"/api/kibana/dashboards/import","method":"post","headers":{"user-agent":"curl/7.29.0","host":"10.198.134.170:5601","accept":"*/*","content-type":"application/json","kbn-xsrf":"whatever","content-length":"245420"},"remoteAddress":"10.198.134.170","userAgent":"curl/7.29.0"},"res":{"statusCode":500,"responseTime":25,"contentLength":9},"message":"POST /api/kibana/dashboards/import 500 25ms - 9.0B"}
```
Any hints what might be wrong?
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### Author:  [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-import-api-fails/265603/5 "2021-03-08T20:41:11Z")
Thanks for the logs - these are super helpful! It looks like your import is failing because the saved objects migration system thinks the index pattern you are attempting to import is malformed.
Briefly looking at the code, it seems like you _might_ be able to get this to work by adding an `attributes` object to the index pattern:
```auto
{\"id\":\"15eb5d40-8b12-11ea-b95c-fd8b76e35998\",\"type\":\"index-pattern\",\"migrationVersion\":{},\"namespace\":\"datasquad-space\",\"updated_at\":\"2021-03-01T08:48:11.331Z\",\"references\":[], \"attributes\":{}}
```
Is this an index pattern you've written by hand, or did you get it directly via `/api/kibana/dashboards/export`? If you simply exported this directly and haven't modified the index pattern, that's more concerning as there may be a bug in either the export or migration code.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-import-api-fails/265603/6 "2021-04-05T20:41:59Z")
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