Simple backup for Kibana saved objects: config, index patterns, dashboards, saved searches, etc.

Uses python3 and python-requests library, which you have to install on your every host anyway, because it's awesome.

Usage

Available actions:

• backup - write backup file in newline-delimitered json format to stdout
• restore - restore backup from stdin
• convert - convert json or ndjson format to yaml

Available arguments:

• --kibana-url - base URL to access Kibana API, default: http://127.0.0.1:5601
• --space-id - kibana space id. If not set then the default space is used.
• --user - kibana user
• --password - kibana password
• --file - file that will be converted or restored
• --backup-dir - backup location
• --extension - backup extension. Available yml or yaml or json. Defaults to json
• --resolve-conflicts - removes references if it get an exception on restoring the backup object. Defaults to true.
• --insecure - do not verify SSL CA authority

Note: To use the default space you should not set --space-id parameter. Setting it to the default space id: default does not work.

Example:

Below examples has been done on Kibana Opendistro for Elasticsearch.

# Backup as json
kibana-backup.py --kibana-url https://$(hostname):5601 --backup-dir $(pwd) --user admin --password mypassword  backup

# Backup as a yaml
kibana-backup.py --kibana-url https://$(hostname):5601 --extension yml --backup-dir $(pwd) --user admin --password mypassword  backup

# Restore backup
kibana-backup.py --kibana-url https://$(hostname):5601 --file dashboard.yml --user admin --password mypassword restore

# Convert json/ndjson to yaml
kibana-backup.py --file dashboard.ndjson --extension yaml convert

Documentation

• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-export.html
• https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-import.html

License

WTFPL

P.S. If this code is useful for you - don't forget to put a star on it's github repo.