Kibana Spaces & Export Objects

smm · June 18, 2021, 7:56am

Hi there,
as sysadmin I would like secure and therefore export Kibana related objects locally.
I have 2 questions.

Example: the cluster has 10 spaces. I can go to each space and manually say 'Export n objects'. But is there a way to download all kibana objects for all spaces at once (to have less work)?
Is there an API so that I can accomplish the export objects task via CLI, even better via cron?
Thank you!
Stefano

dosant · June 18, 2021, 8:20am

There is a saved object API you could use: Saved objects APIs | Kibana Guide [master] | Elastic

Please note, this API is experimental and could be changed in future, but it should work for your case.

I see there is an undocumented namespaces param which you could use to specify a list of spaces or a * to get objects from all the spaces.

github.com

elastic/kibana/blob/7267f505a5414ccf9bf49dafb8f40033f75612d1/test/api_integration/apis/saved_objects/find.ts#L128-L148

    
      
          describe('wildcard namespace', () => {
            it('should return 200 with individual responses from the all namespaces', async () =>
              await supertest
                .get(`/api/saved_objects/_find?type=visualization&fields=title&namespaces=*`)
                .expect(200)
                .then((resp) => {
                  const knownDocuments = resp.body.saved_objects.filter((so: { namespaces: string[] }) =>
                    so.namespaces.some((ns) => [SPACE_ID, `${SPACE_ID}-foo`].includes(ns))
                  );
          
          
        expect(
                    knownDocuments.map((so: { id: string; namespaces: string[] }) => ({
                      id: so.id,
                      namespaces: so.namespaces,
                    }))
                  ).to.eql([
                    { id: 'dd7caf20-9efd-11e7-acb3-3dab96693fab', namespaces: [SPACE_ID] },
                    { id: 'dd7caf20-9efd-11e7-acb3-3dab96693fab', namespaces: [`${SPACE_ID}-foo`] },
                  ]);
                }));
          });

smm · June 18, 2021, 8:53am

Ok - thanks for your insight!
Stefano

system · July 16, 2021, 8:54am

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