Change index on visualization/dashboard

[hvisage]

Update on April 4th 2018 We really appreciate all of your feedback on this mega issue so far, but we need your help as we break this down into more concrete items to work on. Even if you've already +1'd this specific issue, it would be extremely helpful if you could +1 and describe your use case in the more granular issues that are provided below. We won't ignore all the feedback folks have provided so far in this issue, but more focused feedback on the individual feature proposals would be invaluable.

Here are the three sub issues that I believe make up this mega issue:

Changing index patterns on a visualization: #17542 Dashboard level index patterns: #16917 Improved export/import to include referenced objects. Then you can do a search/replace on an index pattern id in a single file: #16831 Nested dashboards: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/16919

Dashboard level index patterns seems to match this initial request best and there is a currently available workaround for it, which is mentioned in https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/16917.

If those three issues do not cover your particular case, please let us know!

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Original Issue Request:

I'm in a situation where I have the exact same dashboard and it's visualizations, but want it to use different aliases/indexes.

The idea would be to segregate different user's data/views, but each have the same view/dashboard (just his/her index/alias differs), especially as I read Shield does authorization/access control via aliases/indexes and that is what I need/want to use for the user authorization/access control then.

[matt-softlogic]

+1

[steveblackmon]

+1

[alcamie101]

👍

[fdufourd]

+1

[forzagreen]

+1

[vtipparam]

+1

[oxygenecore]

+1

[driperdk]

+1

[sumerjabri]

+1

[schickling]

+1

[sorenbs]

OMG. This would be so useful!!!

[sirhc-k]

+1 - Kibana really needs to support reusable "assets."

[fbaligand]

+1

[killthrush]

+1

[latos]

+1111!!!1one

[NightWuYo]

+1

[timtofan]

+1

[GreggBzz]

+1 this would be great!

[krismercado]

+1 for this.

[sebastianmonzel]

+1

[halucinka]

+1

[mrunalgosar]

+1

[bskim45]

+1

[tullydwyer]

+1

[rezkam]

+1

[vincentpfarr]

+1 ! Could be very useful

[xandreklein]

+1

[edgarshurtado]

+1

[jenmo917]

+1

[rohits-dev]

+1

[maniankara]

+1 I thought this was already possible :(

[wosho]

+1

This is def. a must have. Please make it happen.

[Arieltk1]

+1

[avindsilva]

+1

[M2UNO3]

+1

[ghost]

Will a requested feature exist after 2 years? Who knows! +1

[neilc2016]

+1

[dongshengmu]

+1

[xycloud]

+1

[taylorstine]

+1

[maniankara]

+1

[charliejllewellyn]

+1

[kenliao94]

+1

[sorinescu]

+1

[nbelakovski]

+1

[GautamP7]

+1

[fanwu72]

+100000000000

[kmokrzycki]

+1

[89berner]

+1

[AndreAga]

+1