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add note about overwriting dashboards (#6828)
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* add note about overwriting dashboards

* New wording

* Reinstating removed sentence
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Loek van Gool authored and ruflin committed Jun 26, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -40,9 +40,14 @@ You can specify the following options in the `setup.dashboards` section of the
==== `setup.dashboards.enabled`

If this option is set to true, {beatname_uc} loads the sample Kibana dashboards
automatically on startup. If no other options are set, the dashboard are loaded
from the local `kibana` directory in the home path of the installation.
from the local `kibana` directory in the home path of the {beatname_uc} installation.

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.

If no other options are set, the dashboard are loaded
from the local `kibana` directory in the home path of the {beatname_uc} installation.
To load dashboards from a different location, you can configure one of the
following options: <<directory-option,`setup.dashboards.directory`>>,
<<url-option,`setup.dashboards.url`>>, or
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