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Export objects APIedit

[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will apply best effort to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features. Retrieve sets of saved objects that you want to import into Kibana.

For the most up-to-date API details, refer to the open API specification.

Requestedit

POST <kibana host>:<port>/api/saved_objects/_export

POST <kibana host>:<port>/s/<space_id>/api/saved_objects/_export

Path parametersedit

space_id
(Optional, string) An identifier for the space. If space_id is not provided in the URL, the default space is used.

Request bodyedit

type
(Optional, array|string) The saved object types to include in the export. Use * to export all the types.
objects
(Optional, array) A list of objects to export.
includeReferencesDeep
(Optional, boolean) Includes all of the referenced objects in the exported objects.
excludeExportDetails
(Optional, boolean) Do not add export details entry at the end of the stream.

You must include type or objects in the request body.

The savedObjects.maxImportExportSize configuration setting limits the number of saved objects which may be exported.

Response bodyedit

The format of the response body is newline delimited JSON. Each exported object is exported as a valid JSON record and separated by the newline character \n.

When excludeExportDetails=false (the default) we append an export result details record at the end of the file after all the saved object records. The export result details object has the following format:

{
  "exportedCount": 27,
  "missingRefCount": 2,
  "missingReferences": [
    { "id": "an-id", "type": "visualisation"},
    { "id": "another-id", "type": "index-pattern"}
  ]
}

Response codeedit

200
Indicates a successful call.

Examplesedit

Export all data view saved objects:

$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_export -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '
{
  "type": "index-pattern"
}'

Export all data view saved objects and exclude the export summary from the stream:

$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_export -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '
{
  "type": "index-pattern",
  "excludeExportDetails": true
}'

Export a specific saved object:

$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_export -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '
{
  "objects": [
    {
      "type": "dashboard",
      "id": "be3733a0-9efe-11e7-acb3-3dab96693fab"
    }
  ]
}'

Export a specific saved object and it’s related objects:

$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_export -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '
{
  "objects": [
    {
      "type": "dashboard",
      "id": "be3733a0-9efe-11e7-acb3-3dab96693fab"
    }
  ],
  "includeReferencesDeep": true
}'

Export all exportable saved objects and their related objects:

$ curl -X POST api/saved_objects/_export -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '
{
  "type": "*",
  "includeReferencesDeep": true
}'
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