Kiobi

Abstraction for Kibana REST API saved_objects/_find for retrieving objects and saved_objects/_bulk_create for storing objects.

Possible use cases:

• Migrate Kibana objects between two Kibana instances.
• Backup Kibana objects to a file.
• Restore Kibana objects from file.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

source_host - source kibana host source_parameters - url query parameters, default is type=visualization&type=search&type=index-pattern&type=dashboard&per_page=100&page=1 source_objects - list of additional Kibana objects source_file - path to source file destination_host - destination kibana hostname destination_parameters - url query parameters, default is overwrite=false destination_file - path to destination file

Dependencies

None

Example Playbooks

• Playbook for migrating Kibana objects:

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: kiobi
      vars:
        source_host: "localhost:5601"
        source_parameters: "type=search&type=index-pattern&per_page=10&page=1"
        destination_host: "localhost:5602"
        destination_parameters: "overwrite=true"

• Playbook for restoring Kibana objects:

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: kiobi
      vars:
        source_file: "/tmp/saved_objects.json"
        source_objects:
          - id: "43s5rcv7b8yb72g83b8fy"
            type: "index-pattern"
            attributes:
              title: "test-*"
        destination_host: "localhost:5601"

• Playbook for backuping Kibana objects:

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: kiobi
      vars:
        source_host: "localhost:5601"
        destination_file: "/tmp/test_output.json"

License

MIT

Author Information

Tomas Bellus