# Re-use visualizations and dasboards in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-visualizations-and-dasboards-in-kibana/138033>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 29, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-visualizations-and-dasboards-in-kibana/138033 "2018-06-29T20:16:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ybegus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/73ab20/32.png) [@ybegus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ybegus)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-visualizations-and-dasboards-in-kibana/138033/1 "2018-06-29T20:16:00Z")

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I prepared a bunch of visualizations and a dashboard. Now I want to run elk on another server. Could I copy all visualization and dashboard objects to another server and re-use them or I have to re-create them manually?

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**Author:** ![Pritom\_Ahmed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pritom_ahmed/32/20783_2.png) [@Pritom\_Ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pritom_Ahmed)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-visualizations-and-dasboards-in-kibana/138033/2 "2018-06-29T20:24:53Z")

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You can export the visualizations and dashboards from Kibana. Just go to Management -\> Saved Object -\> Export Everything. On the other machine you can use Management -\> Saved object -\> Import to import all the visualizations and dashboards. I hope it solves your problem.

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**Author:** ![ybegus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/73ab20/32.png) [@ybegus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ybegus)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-visualizations-and-dasboards-in-kibana/138033/3 "2018-06-29T20:50:42Z")

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Thank you for a prompt response. So I exported all my visualizations and imported them on another server. When I tried to open imported visualizations on that server I;ve got error message:

A field associated with this object no longer exists in the index pattern.

All these visualizations were created for a particular index pattern. It doesn't exist on another server. How can I fix this problem?

I want to use these visualizations as a template. Import them on another server and assign a Kibana index to re-use them.

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**Author:** ![Pritom\_Ahmed](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pritom_ahmed/32/20783_2.png) [@Pritom\_Ahmed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pritom_Ahmed)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-visualizations-and-dasboards-in-kibana/138033/4 "2018-06-29T20:55:36Z")

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If you have different index patter then this solution may not work. As visualizations and dashboards are based on index or saved searches.

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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 27, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-use-visualizations-and-dasboards-in-kibana/138033/5 "2018-07-27T20:55:41Z")

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