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Export Objects

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Export Objects

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This functionality is beta. It’s on track to become a stable, permanent feature of Kibana. Caution should be exercised because it is possible a breaking change to these APIs will occur in a minor version, but we’ll avoid this wherever possible.

The export saved objects API enables you to retrieve a set of saved objects that can later be imported into Kibana.

Note: You cannot access this endpoint via the Console in Kibana.

Request

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POST /api/saved_objects/_export

Request Body

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type (optional): (array|string) The saved object type(s) that the export should be limited to
objects (optional): (array) A list of objects to export
includeReferencesDeep (optional): (boolean) This will make the exported objects include all the referenced objects needed

Note: At least type or objects must be passed in.

Response body

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The response body will have a format of newline delimited JSON.

Examples

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The following example exports all index pattern saved objects.

POST api/saved_objects/_export
{
  "type": "index-pattern"
}

A successful call returns a response code of 200 along with the exported objects as the response body.

The following example exports specific saved objects.

POST api/saved_objects/_export
{
  "objects": [
    {
      "type": "dashboard",
      "id": "be3733a0-9efe-11e7-acb3-3dab96693fab"
    }
  ]
}

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