# Repeatedly dashboard importing is needed for same beats in multiple machines?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repeatedly-dashboard-importing-is-needed-for-same-beats-in-multiple-machines/251434>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 8, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repeatedly-dashboard-importing-is-needed-for-same-beats-in-multiple-machines/251434 "2020-10-08T12:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![rijinmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rijinmp/32/24634_2.png) [@rijinmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rijinmp)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repeatedly-dashboard-importing-is-needed-for-same-beats-in-multiple-machines/251434/1 "2020-10-08T12:03:40Z")

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Hi All ,

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   Dashboard importing is needed for same beat agents in multiple machines ?

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For Example I am planning to install metricbeat in 10 Linux machines . Is there dashboard importing is needed in all 10 Linux machines or required only for the first beat installing machine only ?

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**Author:** ![MarianaD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marianad/32/42687_2.png) [@MarianaD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarianaD)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repeatedly-dashboard-importing-is-needed-for-same-beats-in-multiple-machines/251434/2 "2020-10-08T15:12:53Z")

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hi @rijinmp, do you mean importing the default dashboards to Kibana? If there is one instance of Kibana then one import is sufficient. Let us know if the scenario is different.

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**Author:** ![rijinmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rijinmp/32/24634_2.png) [@rijinmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rijinmp)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repeatedly-dashboard-importing-is-needed-for-same-beats-in-multiple-machines/251434/3 "2020-10-16T15:59:49Z")

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Thanks @MarianaD.  
The situation is like 1 kibana and metricbeat installed 100 Linux machines .  
In deatis : do I need to run this command "metricbeat setup --dashboards " from 1 Linux machine or from 100 Linux machines .

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**Author:** ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repeatedly-dashboard-importing-is-needed-for-same-beats-in-multiple-machines/251434/4 "2020-10-16T17:25:55Z")

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only in the first install of the beat

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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:** [November 13, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/repeatedly-dashboard-importing-is-needed-for-same-beats-in-multiple-machines/251434/5 "2020-11-13T19:26:02Z")

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