# Change Index on Visualisatons

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-on-visualisatons/58593>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 22, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-on-visualisatons/58593 "2016-08-22T16:29:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![alvaroca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58f4c7/32.png) [@alvaroca1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alvaroca1)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-on-visualisatons/58593/1 "2016-08-22T16:29:55Z")

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Good day,  
when I created my Index's for elastic I renamed them so I can validate and keep them organized. now I'm loading the default visualizations provided for Kibana and they create a winlobeat, Fileneat..etc. index and the visualization does not work... can you tell me how I can change the index on the visualization

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-on-visualisatons/58593/2 "2016-08-22T18:31:12Z")

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Hi Alvaro,

It's not possible to change the index pattern of an existing visualization. Instead, you will need to rebuild the visualization using the new index pattern.

Thanks,  
CJ

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-on-visualisatons/58593/3 "2016-08-24T13:41:34Z")

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Hi Alvaro,  
I haven't tested this, but if you're on Kibana 4.x you could go to Settings \> Objects, and click on tab for the object type you want to change (Searches, or Visualizations), click on the object, and edit the index name in the kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON field, and save it. Make sure you change it to the name of an existing index pattern.

You should probably export everything first as a backup.

Regards,  
Lee

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**Author:** ![alvaroca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58f4c7/32.png) [@alvaroca1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alvaroca1)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-on-visualisatons/58593/4 "2016-09-21T13:16:28Z")

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this worked... many thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-on-visualisatons/58593/5 "2017-07-06T13:38:37Z")

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