# Load only some metricbeat dashboards **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [October 17, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-only-some-metricbeat-dashboards/152899 "2018-10-17T18:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sentient](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sentient/32/34996_2.png) [@sentient](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sentient)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-only-some-metricbeat-dashboards/152899/1 "2018-10-17T18:43:16Z")
I would like to import only some metricbeat dashboards into kibana. The metricbeat setup has no flags for --modules What is the recommended way to do this? On a different note: the documentation shows the filebeat usage on the metricbeat command ?? ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/6.x/import-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/devguide/6.x/import-dashboards.html)) The documentation also mentions to upload from a zip file. But I cannot figure out the structure of the zip file? ./metricbeat setup -E setup.dashboards.file=metricbeat-dashboards-6.0.zip A link to the example file would have been helpful Are there any community dashboards? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-only-some-metricbeat-dashboards/152899/2 "2018-10-17T19:45:42Z")
Hi @sentient 🙂 It's a bit dependant on how did you install metricbeat. Here you have some configuration options to load dashboards [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.2/configuration-dashboards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.2/configuration-dashboards.html) Basically, it looks for the path of the dashboads and loads every file it finds in `setup.dashboards.directory` if it is set or in the default path if not. I'm not sure where the files with each dashboard are installed in RPM or DEB, I guess somewhere in `/etc` For your reference, they all look like this: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/metricbeat/module/kubernetes/\_meta/kibana/6/dashboard](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/metricbeat/module/kubernetes/_meta/kibana/6/dashboard) You'll find a `Metricbeat-*.json` for each module we have. Just delete the ones you don't before before loading them into Kibana ---
**Author:** ![sentient](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sentient/32/34996_2.png) [@sentient](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sentient)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-only-some-metricbeat-dashboards/152899/3 "2018-10-17T20:20:15Z")
Thanks Mario, Do you know the format of the zip file? Or is it just and json file that is stored in the zip file When I try a zip with just one json file I get an error > ``` > metricbeat setup -E "setup.kibana.host=http://localhost:5601" -E "setup.dashboards.file=dashboards.zip" > Loaded index template > Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable) > Exiting: Error importing Kibana dashboards: fail to import the dashboards in Kibana: Error importing URL/file: Too many directories under /tmp/tmp295270073 > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Mario\_Castro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_castro/32/35107_2.png) [@Mario\_Castro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Castro)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-only-some-metricbeat-dashboards/152899/4 "2018-10-17T20:34:05Z")
> [@sentient](#): > > Do you know the format of the zip file? Not really, but as a workaround you can try with the `setup.dashboards.directory`instead and just place the json files inside that folder (no need of zip) ---
**Author:** ![sentient](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sentient/32/34996_2.png) [@sentient](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sentient)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-only-some-metricbeat-dashboards/152899/5 "2018-10-17T20:45:21Z")
FYI It does look for a specific folder structure. E.g. the directory you reference must have a subfolder \6\ I think in general this is an area for improvement. Export and import a dasboard (with all dependencies) should not be too difficult. I have a dashboard in environment A and would like to re-use it in environment B The existing documentation talks about export and import. But the dots just don't connect yet. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/load-only-some-metricbeat-dashboards/152899/6 "2018-11-14T20:59:49Z")
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