# Managing a large number of Dashboards/visualizations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-a-large-number-of-dashboards-visualizations/225067>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-a-large-number-of-dashboards-visualizations/225067 "2020-03-25T20:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![akrzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@akrzos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/akrzos)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-a-large-number-of-dashboards-visualizations/225067/1 "2020-03-25T20:51:06Z")

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I have created several dashboards with many visualizations, it is pretty easy to export/import these into separate elastic clusters however making a small change that would affect all of the visualizations (TSVB) seems to be difficult.

For example if I want to change the index in which the dashboards run against, I can export it and regex/replace the index however the ids still collide and the visualization will prompt about overwrite the existing ones. I would rather create a new visualization so the old dashboard still exists, is this possible?

Are their better tools for managing many visualizations or is the only method working with nested json and/or through the GUI?

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-a-large-number-of-dashboards-visualizations/225067/2 "2020-03-27T14:45:17Z")

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Currently it's not possible through the UI to bulk-change the underlying index pattern of a visualization - scripting this seems like the right approach.

By using the [saved objects API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/saved-objects-api.html) you should have full control in terms of creating new saved objects instead of overwriting and so on.

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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:** [April 24, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-a-large-number-of-dashboards-visualizations/225067/3 "2020-04-24T14:45:17Z")

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