Change/Update index name in Visualization/Dashboard

[mandar279]

Feature::
Better way to change/update index name for a Visualization/Dashboard.

Desc::
Say I have created a Visualization with index name "test1" and now I have update the index name to "test2".

What we have today::
One way I found is to go to Settings --> Saved Objects --> Visualization tab and select the required Visualization say a pie chart and update the index name in "kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON".

Requirement::
Do we have any roadmap for adding a feature to Visualization/Dashboard to update index name in a better way, say a dropdown list of all indexes available and user can simply select it and Visualization/Dashboard is updated with the selected index.

discuss.elastic.co::
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-name-in-visualization/100394/3

[ajinkya-k]

I too am facing the same issue. However, the value for index and meta.index kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON are not human readable but some form of id generated by elasticsearch. How do I obtain these values for the new index that I want to use?

[stacey-gammon]

Closing in favor of #3668

Implementing a feature to change the index pattern(s) on a visualization is a lot different then setting or changing index patterns at the dashboard level. These two requests should probably be split apart.