# Migrate dashboards from one instance of Kibana to another

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854 "2015-11-17T21:21:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vanguard\_space](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vanguard_space/32/5123_2.png) [@Vanguard\_space](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vanguard_space)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854/1 "2015-11-17T21:21:57Z")

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Hello experts,

we have a prod instance of Kibana and have a dashboard which we want to migrate into our local test environment. Is there a way to copy the dashboard or visualizations from one instance of Kibana to another? The schema of the data is same in both the instances.

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**Author:** ![GustavoHoyer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@GustavoHoyer1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GustavoHoyer1)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854/2 "2015-11-17T22:35:38Z")

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Witch version of Kibana are you using?

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**Author:** ![jaminvp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaminvp/32/5868_2.png) [@jaminvp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaminvp)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854/3 "2015-11-19T13:49:29Z")

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"FROM"-instance:

1. Settings -\> Objects -\> Export all Discoveries
2. Settings -\> Objects -\> Export all Visualizations
3. Settings -\> Objects -\> Export all Dashboards  
"TO"-instance:
4. Settings -\> Objects -\> Import all Discoveries
5. Settings -\> Objects -\> Import all Visualizations
6. Settings -\> Objects -\> Import all Dashboards

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**Author:** ![Raggyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@Raggyman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raggyman)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854/4 "2015-11-20T00:23:16Z")

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That only works in Kibana 4 doesn't it. Bit of a nightmare if you are migrating from an older version. We have basically had to start from scratch again.

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**Author:** ![Vanguard\_space](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vanguard_space/32/5123_2.png) [@Vanguard\_space](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vanguard_space)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854/5 "2015-11-20T20:44:53Z")

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It was kibana 3.5 - We upgraded everything to 4.1.2 now and then started the migration of dashboards. It is very easy in 4.1 compared to the previous versions.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/migrate-dashboards-from-one-instance-of-kibana-to-another/34854/6 "2017-07-06T14:08:38Z")

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