# Kibana Dashboards not getting loaded using setup.dashboards.file option

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-not-getting-loaded-using-setup-dashboards-file-option/244210>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-not-getting-loaded-using-setup-dashboards-file-option/244210 "2020-08-07T18:23:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rakesh\_Katakam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rakesh_katakam/32/47247_2.png) [@Rakesh\_Katakam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rakesh_Katakam)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-not-getting-loaded-using-setup-dashboards-file-option/244210/1 "2020-08-07T18:23:23Z")

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Hi ,

Instead of loading all dashboards to Kibana, I want to load only kafka specific dashboards .  
so I zipped below two json file and placed on my local drive.

1. Metricbeat-kafka-overview.json
2. Metricbeat-zookeeper-overview.json

I ran below command to load the dashboards.

```auto
D:\Softwares\Elastic_Search\metricbeat-7.1.1-windows-x86_64>metricbeat.exe setup -E setup.dashboards.file=D:/Users/XXX/Desktop/enable-dashboard.zip
Index setup complete.
Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Loaded dashboards

```

Here it is saying got loaded, but in kibana I am not able to see those dashboards.

is there something missing with my understanding ?

Please suggest on the same.

Thanks,  
Rakesh Katakam.

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**Author:** ![Rakesh\_Katakam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rakesh_katakam/32/47247_2.png) [@Rakesh\_Katakam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rakesh_Katakam)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-not-getting-loaded-using-setup-dashboards-file-option/244210/2 "2020-08-07T18:33:37Z")

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@Jenni  
Could you please suggest on this.

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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:** [September 4, 2020, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboards-not-getting-loaded-using-setup-dashboards-file-option/244210/3 "2020-09-04T20:33:39Z")

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