Cherry-pick #8045 to 6.x: Support Kibana Spaces #8545
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Cherry-pick of PR #8045 to 6.x branch. Original message:
Resolves #7942.
Kibana is implementing a new feature called Spaces, in which Kibana saved objects (such as dashboards) and advanced settings can be restricted to a user-defined namespace. Spaces are identified by a unique ID, e.g.
my-space
. There is also a notion of a Default space which corresponds to how Kibana worked up until the Spaces feature was introduced.Beats have the ability to import dashboards into Kibana as well as export dashboards out of Kibana. With Spaces, dashboards may belong to a specific space. So Beats must learn to accept an optional Space ID and operate against it when importing or exporting dashboards. This PR teaches Beats to do just that.
Concretely, if a user wishes to import or export dashboards from a specific space, say with ID =
my-space
, they must either:<beat>.yml
and setsetup.kibana.space.id: my-space
, or<beat> setup
or<beat> export dashboard
along with the-E setup.kibana.space.id=my-space
option.Similarly, if a Beat developer wishes to export dashboards from a specific space, say with ID =
my-space
, they must run: