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== Migrating dashboards from Kibana 5.x to 6.x
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This section is useful for the community Beats to migrate the Kibana 5.x dashboards to 6.x dashboards.
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In the Kibana 5.x, the saved dashboards consist of multiple JSON files, one for each dashboard, search, visualization
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and index-pattern. To import a dashboard in Kibana, you need to load not only the JSON file containing the dashboard, but
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also all its dependencies (searches, visualizations).
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Starting with Kibana 6.0, the dashboards are loaded by default via the Kibana API. In this case, the saved dashboard
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consist of a single JSON file that includes not only the dashboard content, but also all its dependencies.
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As the format of the dashboards and index-pattern for Kibana 5.x is different than the ones for Kibana 6.x, they are placed in different
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directories. Depending on the Kibana version, the 5.x or 6.x dashboards are loaded.
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The Kibana 5.x dashboards are placed under the 5.x directory that contains the following directories:
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- search
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- visualization
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- dashboard
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- index-pattern
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The Kibana 6.x dashboards and later are placed under the default directory that contains the following directories:
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- dashboard
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- index-pattern
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NOTE:: Please make sure the 5.x and default directories are created before running the following commands.
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To migrate your Kibana 5.x dashboards to Kibana 6.0 and above, you can import the dashboards into Kibana 5.6 and then
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export them using Beats 6.0 version.
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* Start Kibana 5.6
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* Import Kibana 5.x dashboards using Beats 6.0 version.
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Before importing the dashboards, make sure you run `make update` in the Beat directory, that updates the `_meta/kibana` directory. It generates the index-pattern from
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the `fields.yml` file, and places it under the `5.x/index-pattern` and `default/index-pattern` directories. In case of Metricbeat, Filebeat and Auditbeat,
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it collects the dashboards from all the modules to the `_meta/kibana` directory.
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[source,shell]
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make update
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Then load all the Beat's dashboards. For example, to load the Metricbeat rabbitmq dashboards together with the Metricbeat index-pattern into Kibana 5.6,
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using the Kibana API:
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[source,shell]
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make update
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./metricbeat setup -E setup.dashboards.directory=_meta/kibana
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* Export the dashboards using Beats 6.0 version.
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You can export the dashboards via the Kibana API by using the
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https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/dev-tools/cmd/dashboards/export_dashboards.go[export_dashboards.go]
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application.
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For example, to export the Metricbeat rabbitmq dashboard:
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[source,shell]
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cd beats/metricbeat
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go run ../dev-tools/cmd/dashboards/export_dashboards.go -dashboards Metricbeat-Rabbitmq -output
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module/rabbitmq/_meta/kibana/default/Metricbeat-Rabbitmq.json <1>
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<1> `Metricbeat-Rabbitmq` is the ID of the dashboard that you want to export.
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Note: You can get the dashboard ID from the URL of the dashboard in Kibana. Depending on the Kibana version the
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dashboard was created, the ID consists of a name or random characters that can be separated by `-`.
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This command creates a single JSON file (Metricbeat-Rabbitmq.JSON) that contains the dashboard and all the dependencies like searches,
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visualizations. The name of the output file has the format: <Beat name>-<module name>.json.
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Starting with Beats 6.0.0, you can create an `yml` file for each module or for the entire Beat with all the dashboards.
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Below is an example of the `module.yml` file for the system module in Metricbeat.
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[source,yaml]
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dashboards:
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- id: Metricbeat-system-overview <1>
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file: Metricbeat-system-overview.json <2>
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- id: 79ffd6e0-faa0-11e6-947f-177f697178b8
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file: Metricbeat-host-overview.json
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- id: CPU-slash-Memory-per-container
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file: Metricbeat-docker-overview.json
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<1> Dashboard ID.
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<2> The JSON file where the dashboard is saved on disk.
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Using the yml file, you can export all the dashboards for a single module or for the entire Beat using a single command:
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[source,shell]
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cd metricbeat/module/system
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go run ../../../dev-tools/cmd/dashboards/export_dashboards.go -yml module.yml
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