---
title: Archiving Your Beat Dashboards
description: The Kibana dashboards for the Elastic Beats are saved under the kibana directory. To create a zip archive with the dashboards, including visualizations...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/extend/beats/archive-dashboards
products:
  - Beats
applies_to:
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Archiving Your Beat Dashboards
The Kibana dashboards for the Elastic Beats are saved under the `kibana` directory. To create a zip archive with the dashboards, including visualizations and searches and the index pattern, you can run the following command in the Beat repository:
```shell
make package-dashboards
```

The Makefile is part of libbeat, which means that community Beats contributors can use the commands shown here to archive dashboards. The dashboards must be available under the `kibana` directory.
Another option would be to create a repository only with the dashboards, and use the GitHub release functionality to create a zip archive.
Share the Kibana dashboards archive with the community, so other users can use your cool Kibana visualizations!