title: How do you export/import "index-pattern" types in Kibana
body: <p>Kibana 4.3 has great features for importing/exporting dashboards, searches, and visualizations. However, the related index-patterns are not contained in the the generated export.json file. When importing an export.json file into another kibana index, Kibana reports errors <code>Could not locate that index-pattern-field (id: &lt;index-pattern name&gt;)</code>.</p>
  
  <p>How do you migrate kibana's index-patterns from one Elasticsearch instance to another?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,</p>
  
  <p>Nathan </p>