From a84302d99b7be0824eed8d4edcbd550709011f68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?No=C3=A9mi=20V=C3=A1nyi?= Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:15:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add clarification about enableing dashboard loading (#29985) --- libbeat/docs/dashboardsconfig.asciidoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/libbeat/docs/dashboardsconfig.asciidoc b/libbeat/docs/dashboardsconfig.asciidoc index 7bed3d256f86..d720d7e8f7ee 100644 --- a/libbeat/docs/dashboardsconfig.asciidoc +++ b/libbeat/docs/dashboardsconfig.asciidoc @@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ You can specify the following options in the `setup.dashboards` section of the If this option is set to true, {beatname_uc} loads the sample Kibana dashboards from the local `kibana` directory in the home path of the {beatname_uc} installation. +NOTE: {beatname_uc} loads dashboards on startup if either `enabled` is set to `true` +or the `setup.dashboards` section is included in the configuration. + NOTE: When dashboard loading is enabled, {beatname_uc} overwrites any existing dashboards that match the names of the dashboards you are loading. This happens every time {beatname_uc} starts.