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Looking for a way to move dashboards across instances? Check out
Gazer,
a command line tool that migrates content between instances.
If you have multiple Looker instances in your development lifecycle, you may want to move dashboards across those instances. To do this, save your dashboards as LookML dashboards and migrate them using your Git repository. The process is as follows:
If your dashboard is not already a LookML dashboard, create a LookML copy of your user-defined dashboard.
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