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Exporting and Importing OpenSearch Dashboards and visualisations
Exporting and Importing OpenSearch Dashboards and visualisations

Learn how to migrate visualisations and dashboards from one stack to another stack.

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Written by Chris Cottam
Updated over a week ago


Exporting OpenSearch Dashboards and visualisations

  1. Open OpenSearch Dashboards

  2. Visit the saved objects section accessed via Management > Stack Management, all the dashboards and visualisations should be listed here

  3. Select the objects you wish to export and choose Export from the top-right menu

Kibana Stack Management overview
Kibana saved objects

Importing OpenSearch Dashboards and visualisations

  1. Open OpenSearch Dashboards

  2. Visit the Saved Objects section accessed via Management > Stack Management

  3. In the top-right menu, you should see Import, which should allow you to upload an exported JSON/ndjson file

Kibana import saved objects

Moving between different versions of OpenSearch

In some cases exporting and importing OpenSearch 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 OpenSearch

  • You may find that data field names are not the same on a different stacks and data is not in the required format for a visualisation to display correctly.

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