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Import dashboard APIedit

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will apply best effort to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Import dashboards and corresponding saved objects.

Requestedit

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

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

Query parametersedit

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 bodyedit

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 bodyedit

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

Response codeedit

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.

Exampleedit

$ 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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