Kibana dashboards import failed

[l33tname]

Is this a bug or or is it not possible to import the dashboards with this metricbeat version to kibana?

metricbeat version 6.2.4 (amd64), libbeat 6.2.4

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://host: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":"hostname","version":"5.4.0","buildNum":15063,"buildSha":"75afc9fbb024df55fa01acd1a4c2f76d44XXXXXX","uuid":"457e6a6b-XXXX-XXXX-9577-c8d9bbb268ae","status":{"overall":{"state":"green","title":"Green","nickname":"Looking good","icon":"succ... (truncated)

[andrewkroh]

You are affected by https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/6090. This will be fixed in the upcoming 6.3.0 release. Fix: https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/6233.

Were you by any chance using the option -E setup.dashboards.always_kibana=true? If so try without that.

[l33tname]

Uh yes I was using -E setup.dashboards.always_kibana=true. But when I remove it, it failes as well:

metricbeat setup --dashboards -E setup.dashboards.kibana_index=logstash-elk028-*

Is there an easy way to test if this bugfix works in my case or do I need to build everything by hand?

[l33tname]

Ok I compiled it myself and it is fixed.

/home/user/metricbeat -c /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml setup --dashboards -E setup.dashboards.always_kibana=true -E setup.dashboards.kibana_index=logstash-elk028-*

But apparently my Kibana is to old:

Kibana API is not available in Kibana version 5.4.0

[andrewkroh]

@l33tname

-E setup.dashboards.always_kibana=true

When using Kibana 5.x you should not set that flag because the dashboards are installed by writing them directly into the .kibana index in ES. In Kibana 6 (and maybe 5.6) a REST API was added to install dashboards.

This flag tells it to go directly to the Kibana API.

[andrewkroh]

And BTW there are snapshots builds in https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/beats-package-snapshots/index.html.