heartbeat 7.0.0 missing kibana dashboards

[jasonslater2000]

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• Version: 7.0.0
• Operating System: Mac
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• Steps to Reproduce: unpack .tar.gz, notice files are missing.

also notice that ./heartbeat setup produces the following output:
Index setup complete.
Loading dashboards (Kibana must be running and reachable)
Skipping loading dashboards, No directory /Users/jasonslater/Downloads/t/heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/kibana/7

tar -tvf heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 82511 Apr 5 14:57 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/fields.yml
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 5 14:57 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/kibana/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 41 Apr 5 14:59 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/.build_hash.txt
-rw------- 0 root root 6058 Apr 5 14:57 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/heartbeat.yml
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 50808 Apr 5 14:57 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/heartbeat.reference.yml
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 5 14:52 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/monitors.d/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 2575 Apr 5 14:52 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/monitors.d/sample.http.yml.disabled
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1568 Apr 5 14:52 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/monitors.d/sample.icmp.yml.disabled
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 3252 Apr 5 14:52 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/monitors.d/sample.tcp.yml.disabled
-rwxr-xr-x 0 root root 29562812 Apr 5 14:58 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/heartbeat
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 839 Apr 5 14:59 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/README.md
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 168334 Apr 5 14:52 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/NOTICE.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 13675 Apr 5 14:52 heartbeat-7.0.0-darwin-x86_64/LICENSE.txt

note there are no version folders under kibana directory

looking at 6.7.1, the files are there.

tar -tvf heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64.tar.gz

-rw------- 0 root root 6027 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/heartbeat.yml
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 41 Apr 2 08:05 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/.build_hash.txt
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/dashboard/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1496 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/dashboard/f3e771c0-eb19-11e6-be20-559646f8b9ba.json
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/index-pattern/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 15362 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/index-pattern/heartbeat.json
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/search/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1097 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/search/02014c80-29d2-11e7-a68f-bfaa2341cc52.json
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/visualization/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 2109 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/visualization/091c3a90-eb1e-11e6-be20-559646f8b9ba.json
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 2268 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/visualization/0f4c0560-eb20-11e6-9f11-159ff202874a.json
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1989 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/visualization/1738dbc0-eb1d-11e6-be20-559646f8b9ba.json
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1930 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/visualization/920e8140-eb1a-11e6-be20-559646f8b9ba.json
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 1818 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/5/visualization/c65ef340-eb19-11e6-be20-559646f8b9ba.json
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/6/
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/6/dashboard/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 14033 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/6/dashboard/Heartbeat-http-monitor.json
drwxr-xr-x 0 root root 0 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/6/index-pattern/
-rw-r--r-- 0 root root 15549 Apr 2 08:03 heartbeat-6.7.1-darwin-x86_64/kibana/6/index-pattern/heartbeat.json

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/uptime

[dov0211]

The team decided to remove Heartbeat dashboard from 7.0
#10294
In case you would like to import it manually you can find the dashboard here https://github.com/elastic/uptime-contrib

[jasonslater2000]

got it. so does that mean that heartbeat setup should not try looking at the kibana folder for dashboards, or alternatively could we add a readme item with instructions for installing from uptime-contrib?

[dov0211]

yes, we should add the instructions on the readme in the repo, this is something I am planning to add this week

[eedugon]

@dov0211 , also note that the default heartbeat.yml file is coming with this commented section:

#============================== Dashboards =====================================
# These settings control loading the sample dashboards to the Kibana index. Loading
# the dashboards is disabled by default and can be enabled either by setting the
# options here or by using the `setup` command.
#setup.dashboards.enabled: false

That should be considered as might cause confusion.
If a user enables it, the process will fail to start as it will be looking for the dashboards in the default directory.

[andrewvc]

We now document dashboards better here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/view-kibana-dashboards.html

I've opened #12769 to fix the config file

[andrewvc]

This issue isn't serving a lot of purpose at the moment, since there's only one minor item left here. I'm going to close it since #12769 should address the remainder of the issue here.

[sastorsl]

There is still confusion on this issue.

Alt least the old documentation should clearly note the deprecation of built-in kibana dashboards, i.e. on the https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/6.8/load-kibana-dashboards.html page.

In the current version, 7.9.3, there is on clear mention in heartbeat.reference.yml that dashboards are no longer part of the basic package. There reference file could mention that the example dashboards are now in contrib.

From:

# These settings control loading the sample dashboards to the Kibana index. Loading
# the dashboards are disabled by default and can be enabled either by setting the
# options here, or by using the `-setup` CLI flag or the `setup` command.

To:

# These settings control loading the sample dashboards to the Kibana index. Loading
# the dashboards are disabled by default and can be enabled either by setting the
# options here, or by using the `-setup` CLI flag or the `setup` command.
# As of version 7.x sample dashboards are not installed by default but can be found in https://github.com/elastic/uptime-contrib