Unable to use the Kibana Export Dashboards API

[erb (Erick)]

Hi all,

I'm using ELK stak 6.7.1, and would like to use the /api/kibana/dashboards/export API.

Here is what I get when, using the Kibana UI, I export my dashboard:

[
  {
    "_id": "9d77ff30-6b55-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af",
    "_type": "dashboard",
    "_source": {
      "title": "cms pdt versions",
      "hits": 0,
      "description": "",
      "panelsJSON": "[{\"embeddableConfig\":{},\"gridData\":{\"x\":0,\"y\":0,\"w\":20,\"h\":11,\"i\":\"1\"},\"id\":\"49682390-6b53-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af\",\"panelIndex\":\"1\",\"type\":\"visualization\",\"version\":\"6.7.1\"},{\"embeddableConfig\":{},\"gridData\":{\"x\":20,\"y\":0,\"w\":28,\"h\":11,\"i\":\"2\"},\"id\":\"cc0fe750-6b54-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af\",\"panelIndex\":\"2\",\"type\":\"visualization\",\"version\":\"6.7.1\"},{\"gridData\":{\"x\":0,\"y\":11,\"w\":48,\"h\":11,\"i\":\"3\"},\"version\":\"6.7.1\",\"panelIndex\":\"3\",\"type\":\"search\",\"id\":\"93fc64c0-6b53-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af\",\"embeddableConfig\":{}}]",
      "optionsJSON": "{\"darkTheme\":false,\"hidePanelTitles\":false,\"useMargins\":true}",
      "version": 1,
      "timeRestore": false,
      "kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {
        "searchSourceJSON": "{\"query\":{\"language\":\"lucene\",\"query\":\"\"},\"filter\":[{\"meta\":{\"index\":\"9b901eb0-65aa-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af\",\"type\":\"phrase\",\"key\":\"version.keyword\",\"value\":\"3.7.14\",\"params\":{\"query\":\"3.7.14\",\"type\":\"phrase\"},\"disabled\":false,\"negate\":false,\"alias\":null},\"query\":{\"match\":{\"version.keyword\":{\"query\":\"3.7.14\",\"type\":\"phrase\"}}},\"$state\":{\"store\":\"appState\"}}]}"
      }
    }
  }
]

Then I guess that '9d77ff30-6b55-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af' is the ID of my dashboard that I should use in the Kibana API.

So I try:

$ curl -XGET http://vspar-elk-web-01.afp.com:5601/api/kibana/dashboards/export?dashboard=9d77ff30-6b55-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af
{
  "version": "6.7.1",
  "objects": [
    {
      "id": "9d77ff30-6b55-11e9-9658-6d980bb4f1af",
      "type": "dashboard",
      "error": {
        "statusCode": 404,
        "message": "Not found"
      }
    }
  ]
}
$

Always get "404 - Not found".
What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks for your help.

[erb (Erick)]

I tried the same export request on another host, after upgrade to stack 7.0.1.
Worked fine here.

I will upgrade and 6.7.1 cluster to 7.0.1, and see if it's better.

Will let you know ...

[jen-huang]

Thanks for the update Erick. The initial problem on 6.7.1 may be related to security if you have security enabled, the requesting user may be unauthenticated or privileged.

[erb (Erick)]

Security is not enabled, no authentication required to access data via Kibana.