Import objects API
[experimental] This functionality is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a future release. Elastic will take a best effort approach to fix any issues, but experimental features are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Create sets of Kibana saved objects from a file created by the export API.
Request
POST <kibana host>:<port>/api/saved_objects/_import
POST <kibana host>:<port>/s/<space_id>/api/saved_objects/_import
Path parameters
space_id
(Optional, string) An identifier for the space. If space_id
is not provided in the URL, the default space is used.
Query parameters
overwrite
(Optional, boolean) Overwrites saved objects.
Request body
The request body must include the multipart/form-data type.
file
A file exported using the export API.
Response body
success
Top-level property that indicates if the import was successful.
successCount
Indicates the number of successfully imported records.
errors
(array) Indicates the import was unsuccessful and specifies the objects that failed to import.
Response code
200
Indicates a successful call.
Examples
Import an index pattern and dashboard:
$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_import -H "kbn-xsrf: true" --form file=@file.ndjson
The file.ndjson
file contains the following:
{"type":"index-pattern","id":"my-pattern","attributes":{"title":"my-pattern-*"}}
{"type":"dashboard","id":"my-dashboard","attributes":{"title":"Look at my dashboard"}}
The API returns the following:
{
"success": true,
"successCount": 2
}
Import an index pattern and dashboard that includes a conflict on the index pattern:
$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_import -H "kbn-xsrf: true" --form file=@file.ndjson
The file.ndjson
file contains the following:
{"type":"index-pattern","id":"my-pattern","attributes":{"title":"my-pattern-*"}}
{"type":"dashboard","id":"my-dashboard","attributes":{"title":"Look at my dashboard"}}
The API returns the following:
{
"success": false,
"successCount": 1,
"errors": [
{
"id": "my-pattern",
"type": "index-pattern",
"title": "my-pattern-*",
"error": {
"type": "conflict"
},
},
],
}
Import a visualization and dashboard with an index pattern for the visualization reference that doesn’t exist:
$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_import -H "kbn-xsrf: true" --form file=@file.ndjson
The file.ndjson
file contains the following:
{"type":"visualization","id":"my-vis","attributes":{"title":"my-vis"},"references":[{"name":"ref_0","type":"index-pattern","id":"my-pattern-*"}]}
{"type":"dashboard","id":"my-dashboard","attributes":{"title":"Look at my dashboard"},"references":[{"name":"ref_0","type":"visualization","id":"my-vis"}]}
The API returns the following:
"success": false,
"successCount": 0,
"errors": [
{
"id": "my-vis",
"type": "visualization",
"title": "my-vis",
"error": {
"type": "missing_references",
"references": [
{
"type": "index-pattern",
"id": "my-pattern-*"
}
],
"blocking": [
{
"type": "dashboard",
"id": "my-dashboard"
}
]
}
}
]