# Yet another issue using Kibana API to import Dashboard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 19, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088 "2021-10-19T12:23:10Z")
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### Author:  [@skiefer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skiefer)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/1 "2021-10-19T12:23:10Z")
I've read thru all the previous posts on the subject, and every google result I can find, but still can't get this running. I was provided a json file of Dashboard configuration to load into my environment.
Kibana version: 6.7.1
this is the command I'm running:
curl -k -XPOST '[http://localhost:5601/api/kibana/dashboards/import](http://localhost:5601/api/kibana/dashboards/import)' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "kbn-xsrf: true" -d Dashboards\_6.x.json
This is my error:
Error: {{"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":"Invalid request payload JSON format"}
Some posts have said the @ is required before the json filename, so when I try that, i get the following error:
{"statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request","message":""value" must be an object","validation":{"source":"payload","keys":["value"]}}
Help!! thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@Tre\_Seymour](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tre_Seymour)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/2 "2021-10-19T17:15:00Z")
Hello @skiefer Is it possible to upgrade to a newer version?
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### Author:  [@skiefer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skiefer)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/3 "2021-10-19T17:17:27Z")
I thought about that, but it seems like this functionality should be supported. Upgrade seemed like a pretty big task, let me look thru those instructions again.
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### Author:  [@Tre\_Seymour](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tre_Seymour)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/4 "2021-10-19T18:05:25Z")
Ok, well I know you're on 6.7.1. What kind of host(s) are you running this on?
Also, what are the status pages returning?
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### Author:  [@skiefer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skiefer)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/5 "2021-10-19T18:35:17Z")
Running on Ubuntu. Status page shows Green.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/6 "2021-10-19T22:08:28Z")
> [@skiefer](#):
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> I was provided a json file of Dashboard configuration to load into my environment.
From where? What does it look like?
> [@skiefer](#):
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> Kibana version: 6.7.1
FYI that's [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol), so technically unsupported.
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### Author:  [@skiefer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skiefer)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/7 "2021-10-21T11:10:04Z")
OK, got the system updated to the latest version and was able to do the import using the ndjson file and importing thru the Kibana UI. Thanks for the help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2021, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/yet-another-issue-using-kibana-api-to-import-dashboard/287088/8 "2021-11-18T11:10:39Z")
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