I know for a fact that saved Kibana dashboards (ie, the JSON file of the dashboard) are saved in OR associated to a particular ElasticSearch instance. If I were to save my Kibana instance when attached to one server hosting ElasticSearch and I were to switch my ElasticSearch server to another address, I would lose my saved dashboard. But, if I were to switch back to the original server address, I will get the saved dashboard back.

My question, thus, is where exactly in the elasticsearch installation directory are the dashboards saved. I would rather be able to run a script to automatically load my pre-created Kibana dashboards than be forced to copy/paste JSON through the web console every time I start up a new ElasticSearch instance.

Thank you for the help.

UPDATE

According to this Google Groups post, the dashboards are saved into the kibana-int _index with a _type of dashboard and an _id of what I named the . So, to save my dashboards into new ElasticSearch instances, do I just need to execute a PUT into this _index through CURL? Is there a better way to do this?