# Unable to import kibana dashboards

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/143731
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [August 9, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/143731 "2018-08-09T16:20:27Z")
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### Author: ![Bleyc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bleyc/32/31831_2.png) [@Bleyc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bleyc)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/143731/1 "2018-08-09T16:20:27Z")

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hello folks, i have set up elastic, logstash, kibana and metricbeat, all running version 5.6.10 on Centos7. metricbeat is on a different node, what am trying to do is import the kibana dashboards into elastic, i tried running [setup kibana dashboards](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/load-kibana-dashboards.html) but that did not work for me, i kept gettint the error that the _metricbeat.yml_ file could not be found.  
so i tried running the import dashboards by using the method specified in the scripts directory in _/usr/share/metricbeat/scripts/README.md_ however this too is giving me due to the fact that metricbeat is trying to connect to a localhost elasticsearach, however the elastic node that metricbeat is supposed to connect to?  
how do i get around this?  
thanks in advance

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### Author: ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/143731/2 "2018-08-09T16:38:46Z")

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[Set the Kibana endpoint](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.3/setup-kibana-endpoint.html) and enable [dashboard load on startup](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/6.3/configuration-dashboards.html)?

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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: [September 6, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/143731/3 "2018-09-06T16:38:46Z")

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