# Metricbeat setup dashboards fails

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-setup-dashboards-fails/115864>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 17, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-setup-dashboards-fails/115864 "2018-01-17T10:43:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesliu\_london](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jamesliu_london/32/38602_2.png) [@jamesliu\_london](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamesliu_london)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-setup-dashboards-fails/115864/1 "2018-01-17T10:43:25Z")

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kibana 5.0.3  
metricbeat6.0.1

metricbeat setup --dashboards  
INFO Kibana url: http://:5601  
2018-01-17T10:27:56Z CRIT 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://10.134.39.187:5601/api/status](http://10.134.39.187:5601/api/status). Response: Kibana@font-face { font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-st... (truncated). Kibana 5.x status api returns: invalid character '\<' looking for beginning of value. Kibana 6.x status api returns: invalid character '\<' looking for beginning of value

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-setup-dashboards-fails/115864/2 "2018-01-17T11:37:34Z")

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Hi @jamesliu_london,

Could you please share the output of `curl http://10.134.39.187:5601/api/status`? I'm wondering what's Kibana answering to that request

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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:** [February 7, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-setup-dashboards-fails/115864/3 "2018-02-07T10:43:24Z")

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