# Should Beats modules overwrite Kibana dashboards?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-beats-modules-overwrite-kibana-dashboards/127984>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** beats-development\
**Created:** [April 13, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-beats-modules-overwrite-kibana-dashboards/127984 "2018-04-13T13:31:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Loek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@Loek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loek)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-beats-modules-overwrite-kibana-dashboards/127984/1 "2018-04-13T13:31:09Z")

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Following up on [add note about overwriting dashboards by loekvangool · Pull Request #6828 · elastic/beats · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/6828/files).

It seems that Beats now overwrites dashboards ([https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/9e2838d9ecaf4d9c3ea05ba7f97182cdd2d93574/libbeat/dashboards/kibana\_loader.go#L89](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/9e2838d9ecaf4d9c3ea05ba7f97182cdd2d93574/libbeat/dashboards/kibana_loader.go#L89)). There is a `force` flag hardcoded to `true`. Should this be the desired behaviour? Maybe this flag should be configurable?

Quoting @dedemorton:

> This seems fairly important, so you might want to call this out as a separate note. I wonder if it might make sense to have a setup.dashboards.overwrite option like we have with the index template?

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-beats-modules-overwrite-kibana-dashboards/127984/2 "2018-04-13T16:23:21Z")

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It would make sense to me to expose this value through the configuration.

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**Author:** ![Loek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@Loek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Loek)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/should-beats-modules-overwrite-kibana-dashboards/127984/3 "2018-05-11T18:38:03Z")

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