# Unable to import Kibana dashboards

**URL:** https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945
**Category:** Open Source Elasticsearch and Kibana
**Created:** [February 10, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945 "2021-02-10T23:44:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author: ![valentin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/valentin/32/275_2.png) [@valentin](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/valentin)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/1 "2021-02-10T23:44:01Z")

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Hello everyone,

I’ve tried to import some filebeat dashboards (like the one for mysql module) into Kibana and I am unfortunately out of ideas on how to make this work.

It seems like the API is not working + the Web UI for importing object is also refusing the json format?

I’ve configured the filebeat.yml with the proper credentials but either way I am using, it is either ending up in some error.

Anyone managed to import dashboard into an opendistro cluster running 1.9.0, that is connected to AD and using tenants?

Thank you!

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### Author: ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/2 "2021-02-11T14:45:36Z")

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Just to confirm, you’re 100% sure you’re getting data into your indexes? The most common issue I see is folks installing the Elastic licensed version of beats and failing at the license check stage.

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### Author: ![valentin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/valentin/32/275_2.png) [@valentin](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/valentin)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/3 "2021-02-11T14:59:36Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply!

This is using the filebeat-oss version + the web ui / stacks management / saved objects.  
Data is flowing into the indexes.

I plan to upgrade to version 1.12.0 next week and see if that brings any kind of improvement.

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### Author: ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/4 "2021-02-11T15:05:57Z")

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Great. Also confirm that you’re using the correct version of beats for your version of elasticsearch (1.9 should use 7.8 Elasticsearch).

PS - I wouldn’t upgrade to 1.12 next week - 1.13 should be out about the same time!

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### Author: ![valentin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/valentin/32/275_2.png) [@valentin](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/valentin)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/5 "2021-02-22T10:10:55Z")

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Hi @searchymcsearchface

I’ve upgrade to 1.13 and it was more or less OK.

BUT, after the upgrade kibana is veeeeeeeery slow.

Anyone else having performance issues with kibana after the upgrade?

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### Author: ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/6 "2021-02-22T14:06:04Z")

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I haven’t heard of any other performance problems.

Could you help me understand what you mean by “veeeeeeeery slow” (page load? query? etc.)?

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### Author: ![valentin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/valentin/32/275_2.png) [@valentin](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/valentin)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/7 "2021-02-22T14:09:46Z")

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Hi,

The page is taking between 0.5 and 3 minutes to load on average.  
If it cannot load, it usually throws an error like the one below:

```auto
Version: 7.10.2
Build: 36136
Error: Setup lifecycle of "opendistroSecurityKibana" plugin wasn't completed in 30sec. Consider disabling the plugin and re-start.
    at https://fancyhost/36136/bundles/core/core.entry.js:6:147917

```

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### Author: ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/8 "2021-02-22T14:38:16Z")

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@valentin That seems super unusual. Everything worked speedily under 1.9.0?

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### Author: ![valentin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/valentin/32/275_2.png) [@valentin](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/valentin)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/9 "2021-02-22T16:55:46Z")

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> [@searchymcsearchface](#):
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> Everything worked speedily under 1.9.0?

Speedily no, but 2-3x faster than it is loading now and this kind of error never appeared until now.  
There was no extra/different data added to the cluster or any other type of changes applied.

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### Author: ![searchymcsearchface](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/searchymcsearchface/32/868_2.png) [@searchymcsearchface](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/searchymcsearchface)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/10 "2021-02-22T20:40:39Z")

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OK. Do you mind writing an issue? The security team would probably be the best to help diagnose given the error message [GitHub - opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security](https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security)

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### Author: ![valentin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/valentin/32/275_2.png) [@valentin](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/valentin)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/11 "2021-02-22T21:44:06Z")

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I’ve created the following issue on github → [https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security/issues/1047](https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch/security/issues/1047)

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### Author: ![valentin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/valentin/32/275_2.png) [@valentin](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/valentin)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/unable-to-import-kibana-dashboards/4945/12 "2021-02-23T10:51:36Z")

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Good news,

We’ve managed to track the issue and it was coming from the F5 Load balancer.  
http/2 was enabled on the targets and this was causing this long loading times.

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