# Recreate dashboards from kibana3 to kibana4

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/26064
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 22, 2015, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/26064 "2015-07-22T09:35:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![joiceedattel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joiceedattel/32/3811_2.png) [@joiceedattel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joiceedattel)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2015, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/26064/1 "2015-07-22T09:35:03Z")

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Hi,  
Currently I'm having a kibana 3 setup and I installed Kibana 4 as a separate installation. Now I want to recreate my existing K3 customized dashboards in K4 . I'm having last 20 days indices file in my elasticsearch-1.5 directory. Could you please give me the steps to create dashboards in K4

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2015, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/26064/2 "2015-07-22T09:56:36Z")

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There's no automated way to convert Kibana 3 dashboards to Kibana 4 so you need to do that manually. Have you looked at the [Kibana video tutorials](https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-video-tutorials-part-1)?

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### Author: ![joiceedattel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joiceedattel/32/3811_2.png) [@joiceedattel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joiceedattel)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/26064/3 "2015-07-22T11:29:42Z")

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Dear Magnus Back,

Thanks for your reply .  
One more doubt I'm having In my K3 web console , I was able to give Query as well as Filtering parameters as shown in the screenshot.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/9/90a1fed646dc0ac79cabd111a9885e11bfe965a2.png)

In this new K4, where I can pass those values .

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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/recreate-dashboards-from-kibana3-to-kibana4/26064/4 "2017-07-06T14:16:02Z")

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