# Change index pattern of visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-pattern-of-visualization/186832>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 21, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-pattern-of-visualization/186832 "2019-06-21T08:35:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![June](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@June](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/June)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-pattern-of-visualization/186832/1 "2019-06-21T08:35:26Z")

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Greetings!

I have to create a new visualization every time when the index is deleted/recreating because the visualization can't function after the index is deleted/recreated. Is there any way to edit the visualization by just modifying the index pattern rather than creating a new visualization?  
Kindly advise on this.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![parallelthought](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/35a633/32.png) [@parallelthought](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/parallelthought)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-pattern-of-visualization/186832/2 "2019-06-21T09:10:24Z")

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One of the option would be to create an alias for the indices which need to be deleted. And in Kibana you can create the index pattern based on this alias.

In the above scenario, whenever you delete an index, the viz remains intact but just empty without any data. And whenever a new index is created, it can be added under the alias.

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**Author:** ![June](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@June](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/June)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-pattern-of-visualization/186832/3 "2019-06-21T09:22:06Z")

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@parallelthought, Thank you.

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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 19, 2019, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-index-pattern-of-visualization/186832/4 "2019-07-19T09:22:14Z")

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