Exporting Kibana Dashboards and visualisations
Open Kibana
Visit the saved objects section accessed via Management > Stack Management, all the dashboards and visualisations should be listed here
Select the objects you wish to export and choose Export from the top-right menu
Importing Kibana Dashboards and visualisations
Open Kibana
Visit the Saved Objects section accessed via Management > Stack Management
In the top-right menu, you should see Import, which should allow you to upload an exported JSON/ndjson file
Moving between different versions of ELK
In some cases exporting and importing Kibana objects may not always reimport successfully. However, this is rare. Along as you always have an export it can be quite simple to recreate the objects using your exported data. For example;
Dashboards may not import cleanly on a different version of Kibana
You may find that data field names are not the same on a different ELK stack and data is not in the required format for a visualisation to display correctly.
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