Saved Items Import/Export Json/ndjson discrepancy

Elastic Stack Kibana
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Hi,

We have a Dev and Prod copy of Kibana, our Dev is 7.1.0, our Prod is 7.2.0

The problem is when developing in Dev and exporting, we get a .json file which gives an warning when importing into Prod and nothing in Prod can be sent back to Dev. Has this been a change during the version upgrade from 7.1.0 to 7.2.0 as I cannot find anything in the changelogs specifically stating export format changed from .json to .ndjson

Many thanks,

Steve

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Hi @SpinDORK,

Can you give us the warning you are seeing?

Thanks,
Liza

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Hi,

So .json format got deprecated in 7.2.0 and we have the .ndjson format now. But .json format wont be going away for a while yet.

Here is the PR for it:

Were you able to import without any problems? or were there any issues?

Thanks,
Bhavya

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Hi,

Well unfortunately some of our dashboards and visualisations were developed in Prod so we need to retroactively export them back into Dev to mirror. So when I export a dashboard from Prod and import into Dev I get this error;

Sorry, there was an error
The file could not be processed.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to give me any more information other than that.

Dev --> Prod works but not Prod --> Dev

Is there any work around for this?

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I get the same error exporting from 7.3.1 and importing into 7.1.1 - is there a workaround please (I can't upgrade the 7.1.1 Kibana)?
Thanks,
Andrew

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So far we've just had to rebuild the dashboards 1:1 manually.

@LizaD @bhavyarm is there any workaround?

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I checked with our dev team and they said we don't support downgrade patterns, only upgrade.

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