# Moving from development to production - exporting visualizations?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-from-development-to-production-exporting-visualizations/25852>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 19, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-from-development-to-production-exporting-visualizations/25852 "2015-07-19T03:17:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bdunbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-from-development-to-production-exporting-visualizations/25852/1 "2015-07-19T03:17:33Z")

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I'm moving my elasticsearch cluster into production. Part of this is standing up a new instance for Kibana 4, then configuring as an elasticsearch client, as outlined [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html).

How do I take my dashboard, and visualizations, with me? I've got some already configured and while \_re\_doing them is possible, I can see where I might want to make these portable.

How do I extract visualizations, and dashboards?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-from-development-to-production-exporting-visualizations/25852/2 "2015-07-19T05:34:07Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html#managing-saved-objects](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html#managing-saved-objects)

You can do single ones or them all. Or you can also take a snapshot of the `.kibana` index and then restore it.

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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, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/moving-from-development-to-production-exporting-visualizations/25852/3 "2017-07-06T14:16:14Z")

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