# Save & Re-use searches/visualizations/dashboards **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [June 10, 2015, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292 "2015-06-10T10:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![laughingblade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/laughingblade/32/597_2.png) [@laughingblade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/laughingblade)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292/1 "2015-06-10T10:41:03Z")
Hi, (KIbana 4) I'm running the ELK stack locally on Ubuntu by simply unpacking into the user's ~/opt folder and then e.g. bin/kibana, per the basic instructions in the various [elastic.io](http://elastic.io) guides. My use case is analysis of datasets consisting of pre-captured logs, and I'm running a fresh VM/container for each dataset. I want to set up a load of searches/visualizations/dashboards that I can re-use in each VM/container. The idea is to spin up a fresh VM/container with the ELK stack, drop in the data, **drop in the saved searches/visualizations/dashboards** , run the ELK tools and have all the searches/visualizations/dashboards results magically appear. However, I can't see where the various items are saved. Are they _only_ the URLs, or are they stored to disk anywhere? TIA Rich ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292/2 "2015-06-10T11:04:19Z")
They are stored in the .kibana index in ES. KB4.1 will allow you to export and import a JSON file as an option, it'll be out really soon. ---
**Author:** ![laughingblade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/laughingblade/32/597_2.png) [@laughingblade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/laughingblade)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292/3 "2015-06-10T11:23:32Z")
Thanks Mark for the quick reply. Can you confirm that all three - searches, visualization, and dashboards - are all stored in this way, and that all will be accessible via the up-coming import/export option? Is there a date for 4.1 yet? Thanks Rich ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292/4 "2015-06-10T22:02:46Z")
It came out hours ago 🙂 [https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-1](https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-4-1) ---
**Author:** ![Darpan205](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/darpan205/32/3548_2.png) [@Darpan205](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Darpan205)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292/6 "2015-06-11T05:52:32Z")
Yes.. KB 4.1 supports EXPORT/IMPORT json. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/1X/d653636bd58c94b1e10f7b4abfaa66cf7160eb3e.jpg) Cheers!! ---
**Author:** ![laughingblade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/laughingblade/32/597_2.png) [@laughingblade](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/laughingblade)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292/7 "2015-06-11T11:17:20Z")
Awesome! This stuff is brilliant. Rich ---
**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, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/save-re-use-searches-visualizations-dashboards/2292/8 "2017-07-06T14:18:17Z")