# Couldn't find any Elasticsearch data after deleting indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-find-any-elasticsearch-data-after-deleting-indexes/172416>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-find-any-elasticsearch-data-after-deleting-indexes/172416 "2019-03-14T20:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arthur19](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arthur19/32/41792_2.png) [@Arthur19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arthur19)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-find-any-elasticsearch-data-after-deleting-indexes/172416/1 "2019-03-14T20:33:18Z")

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Hi,

Thanks in advance for your help. While I was trying to reload old logs, I deleted the existing indexes:

```auto
DELETE filebeat-*
DELETE graylog*

```

In addition deleted the filebeat data folder which had the regisry and meta.json that kept the logs processed. Then I restarted filebeat, elasticsearch, logstash. Looking into the indexes I am able to find the following:

```auto
log1 logstash]$ curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v'
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green open graylog_0 G6IrO1WpR7mQfTiddFjiZQ 1 0 0 0 261b 261b
green open .kibana_1 1IAWVOajR5O_CBQLANBq7Q 1 0 4 0 15.5kb 15.5kb

```

However, in Kibana I am not able to create index patterns:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/2/b2131a8d02af0ae8095b35b1ca99c320e8b97519.png)

How can I be able to create index patterns again?

Thanks a lot

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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:** [April 11, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-find-any-elasticsearch-data-after-deleting-indexes/172416/2 "2019-04-11T20:33:19Z")

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