Importing and exporting Kibana saved objects
Now that we've discussed ECS and why it is important from a theoretical standpoint, let's discuss how we can apply that to information sharing by exporting (and importing) our ECS-compliant Kibana saved objects.
Kibana saved objects are used to store data that you intend to use (or share) elsewhere. This includes saved searches, tags, visualizations, dashboards, index patterns, and more. As you may recall from Chapter 7, Using Kibana to Explore and Visualize Data, we created several saved searches, visualizations, dashboards, and tags.
To review our saved objects, we must log into Kibana and then go to Stack Management. We can do this by either clicking on the Manage button on the Kibana Home screen, or by going to the bottom of the menu bar on the left-hand side of the screen. If you need a reminder on how to get to Stack Management, you can review the Adding index patterns section of Chapter 3, Introduction to the Elastic...