# Unable to import vsphere dashboards into kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-into-kibana/218877>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-into-kibana/218877 "2020-02-12T00:47:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andrew22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Andrew22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew22)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-into-kibana/218877/1 "2020-02-12T00:47:36Z")

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Hello i am unable to import vsphere dashboards into kibana.  
after installing with yum i don't even see the files for it so i got it from github which has the vsphere files called

metricbeat-vsphere-host.json  
metricbeat-vsphere-vm.json

but when i try to import them into kibana in saved object i get the error:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/f/efa4c368af230b395776067e689c863dc32369cd.png)

any help would be great!!!!

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**Author:** ![Andrew22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@Andrew22](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew22)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-into-kibana/218877/2 "2020-02-14T21:30:00Z")

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i found these two files in the metricbeat on github

metricbeat-vsphere-vm.json  
metricbeat-vsphere-host.json

i put them into the /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana/7/dashboards/ directory and i ran the command

metricbeat setup --dashboards

and i recieved this error

Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)  
Exiting: Failed to import dashboard: Failed to load directory /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana/7/dashboard:  
error loading /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana/7/dashboard/metricbeat-vsphere-host.json: failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:0ebd0be0-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7'. Preview of field's value: '{filter=, query={query=, language=kuery}}'. Response: {"objects":[{"id":"0ebd0be0-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7","type":"dashboard","error":{"message":"failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:0ebd0be0-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da... (truncated)  
error loading /usr/share/metricbeat/kibana/7/dashboard/metricbeat-vsphere-vm.json: failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:8a2d1540-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7'. Preview of field's value: '{filter=, query={query=, language=kuery}}'. Response: {"objects":[{"id":"8a2d1540-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da7","type":"dashboard","error":{"message":"failed to parse field [dashboard.kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON] of type [text] in document with id 'dashboard:8a2d1540-f049-11e9-aaf3-15199b632da... (truncated)

it seems there is somthing wrong with the dashboards?

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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:** [March 13, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-import-vsphere-dashboards-into-kibana/218877/3 "2020-03-13T21:30:02Z")

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