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Import dashboard API

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Import dashboard API

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Deprecated in 7.15.0.

Use the saved objects API instead.

Import dashboards and corresponding saved objects.

Request

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POST <kibana host>:<port>/api/kibana/dashboards/import

POST <kibana host>:<port>/s/<space-id>/api/kibana/dashboards/import

Query parameters

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force
(Optional, boolean) Overwrite any existing objects on ID conflict.
exclude
(Optional, array) Saved object types that you want to exclude from the import.

Request body

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Use the complete response body from the Export dashboard API as the request body. Do not manually construct a payload to the endpoint. The max payload size is determined by the savedObjects.maxImportPayloadBytes configuration key.

Response body

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objects
(array) A top level property that includes the saved objects.

Response code

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200
Indicates a successful call, even if there are errors importing individual saved objects. If there are errors, the error information is returned in the response body on an object-by-object basis.

Example

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$ curl -X POST api/kibana/dashboards/import?exclude=index-pattern
{
  "objects": [
    {
      "id": "80b956f0-b2cd-11e8-ad8e-85441f0c2e5c",
      "type": "visualization",
      "updated_at": "2018-09-07T18:40:33.247Z",
      "version": 1,
      "attributes": {
        "title": "Count Example",
        "visState": "{\"title\":\"Count Example\",\"type\":\"metric\",\"params\":{\"addTooltip\":true,\"addLegend\":false,\"type\":\"metric\",\"metric\":{\"percentageMode\":false,\"useRanges\":false,\"colorSchema\":\"Green to Red\",\"metricColorMode\":\"None\",\"colorsRange\":[{\"from\":0,\"to\":10000}],\"labels\":{\"show\":true},\"invertColors\":false,\"style\":{\"bgFill\":\"#000\",\"bgColor\":false,\"labelColor\":false,\"subText\":\"\",\"fontSize\":60}}},\"aggs\":[{\"id\":\"1\",\"enabled\":true,\"type\":\"count\",\"schema\":\"metric\",\"params\":{}}]}",
        "uiStateJSON": "{}",
        "description": "",
        "version": 1,
        "kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {
          "searchSourceJSON": "{\"index\":\"90943e30-9a47-11e8-b64d-95841ca0b247\",\"query\":{\"query\":\"\",\"language\":\"lucene\"},\"filter\":[]}"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "90943e30-9a47-11e8-b64d-95841ca0b247",
      "type": "index-pattern",
      "updated_at": "2018-09-07T18:39:47.683Z",
      "version": 1,
      "attributes": {
        "title": "kibana_sample_data_logs",
        "timeFieldName": "timestamp",
        "fields": "<truncated for example>",
        "fieldFormatMap": "{\"hour_of_day\":{}}"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "942dcef0-b2cd-11e8-ad8e-85441f0c2e5c",
      "type": "dashboard",
      "updated_at": "2018-09-07T18:41:05.887Z",
      "version": 1,
      "attributes": {
        "title": "Example Dashboard",
        "hits": 0,
        "description": "",
        "panelsJSON": "[{\"gridData\":{\"w\":24,\"h\":15,\"x\":0,\"y\":0,\"i\":\"1\"},\"version\":\"7.0.0-alpha1\",\"panelIndex\":\"1\",\"type\":\"visualization\",\"id\":\"80b956f0-b2cd-11e8-ad8e-85441f0c2e5c\",\"embeddableConfig\":{}}]",
        "optionsJSON": "{\"useMargins\":true,\"hidePanelTitles\":false}",
        "version": 1,
        "timeRestore": false,
        "kibanaSavedObjectMeta": {
          "searchSourceJSON": "{\"query\":{\"query\":\"\",\"language\":\"lucene\"},\"filter\":[]}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
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