# Store and ship Dashboard as JSON?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-ship-dashboard-as-json/44849>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 18, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-ship-dashboard-as-json/44849 "2016-03-18T16:02:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MarcelHallmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MarcelHallmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcelHallmann)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-ship-dashboard-as-json/44849/1 "2016-03-18T16:02:32Z")

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Hey,

we are migration from Kibana 3 to Kibana 4.4.2 right now.

In Kibana 3 we were able store the dashboards as JSON in git and also ship them as JSON (stored under /app/dashboards/mydashboard.json) to our DEV and QA servers.

Is this not possible with Kibana 4? Do the dashboards only live in the .kibana index?

Thanks

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**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:** [March 18, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-ship-dashboard-as-json/44849/2 "2016-03-18T22:31:16Z")

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That is correct.

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**Author:** ![MarcelHallmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MarcelHallmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcelHallmann)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-ship-dashboard-as-json/44849/3 "2016-03-21T06:52:55Z")

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Well, and what is the recommended way to share dashboards over several instances?

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**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:** [March 21, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-ship-dashboard-as-json/44849/4 "2016-03-21T19:10:43Z")

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Snapshot and Restore?  
We are working on APIs for KB to let you manage stuff like this, not sure on the lead time though.

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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, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/store-and-ship-dashboard-as-json/44849/5 "2017-07-06T13:58:24Z")

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