Creating New Kibana Dashboards for a Beat or a Beat module
The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
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When contributing to Beats development, you may want to add new dashboards or customize the existing ones. To get started, you can import the Kibana dashboards that come with the official Beats and use them as a starting point for your own dashboards. When you’re done making changes to the dashboards in Kibana, you can use the export_dashboards script to export the dashboards, along with all dependencies, to a local directory.
To make sure the dashboards are compatible with the latest version of Kibana and Elasticsearch, we recommend that you use the virtual environment under beats/testing/environments to import, create, and export the Kibana dashboards.
The following topics provide more detail about importing and working with Beats dashboards: