# Pre-built dashboards to different index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-dashboards-to-different-index/110754>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 7, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-dashboards-to-different-index/110754 "2017-12-07T22:10:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ramzey1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@ramzey1981](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramzey1981)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-dashboards-to-different-index/110754/1 "2017-12-07T22:10:47Z")

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hey team,

I am currently using elk 6.0 and have the filebeat dashboards currently migrated to kibana. There is an nginx dashboard that works when i associate to the filebeat index. Howerver we have have switched all of our service application to the services index at our organization, how do i get the nginx dashboard that was working with filebeats to work with the new index. The service index is basically using the filebeat template under the hood.

thanks

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**Author:** ![Stacey\_Gammon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stacey_gammon/32/14025_2.png) [@Stacey\_Gammon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stacey_Gammon)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-dashboards-to-different-index/110754/2 "2017-12-11T21:12:41Z")

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If I understand your need, you want to switch all the visualizations on your dashboard to point to a new index? This is something we want to make easier ([https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3668](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3668)), but for the time being the only option is to export and do a search/replace on the visualizations, or use an index alias ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/indices-aliases.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/indices-aliases.html)). The latter most likely being the easier option.

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**Author:** ![ramzey1981](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@ramzey1981](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramzey1981)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-dashboards-to-different-index/110754/3 "2017-12-11T21:41:21Z")

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Thanks Stacy

I will give this a shot.

Cheers

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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:** [January 8, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/pre-built-dashboards-to-different-index/110754/4 "2018-01-08T21:41:50Z")

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