# Dashboard and Timelion visualisations all missing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-and-timelion-visualisations-all-missing/210960>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [December 7, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-and-timelion-visualisations-all-missing/210960 "2019-12-07T10:44:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![camjesus2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@camjesus2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/camjesus2)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-and-timelion-visualisations-all-missing/210960/1 "2019-12-07T10:44:08Z")

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Hi all,  
Running kibana 7.5.0 we had a nasty crash yesterday.  
After recovering from the crash, all our visualizations were missing both in Dashboard and Timelion. Everything else seems ok, data is being ingested, indexes are there, but no visualisations.  
I've seen some reports relating to missing .kibana index and indeed I don't have a .kibana. I do have .kibana\_1 through \_9 though.  
Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot/ solve this (apart from recreating all my visualizations of course)?  
I'm far from being an expert user so please, bear with me.

Best regards,  
Carlos

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-and-timelion-visualisations-all-missing/210960/2 "2019-12-10T09:56:31Z")

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Hi @camjesus2,

Kibana is always looking for the `.kibana` index. To make safe migrations possible, it is not operating directly on that index but is using a suffixed index for the actual data and `.kibana` is just an alias (like a pointer) to the currently active one. It seems like in your case the alias got lost so kibana doesn't know what to do. You can try to recreate the alias pointing to the last kibana index like this:

```auto
POST /_aliases
{
    "actions" : [
        { "add" : { "index" : ".kibana_9", "alias" : ".kibana" } }
    ]
}

```

Make sure to restart the Kibana service after creating the alias

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**Author:** ![camjesus2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@camjesus2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/camjesus2)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-and-timelion-visualisations-all-missing/210960/3 "2019-12-11T13:15:56Z")

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> [@flash1293](#):
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> POST /\_aliases { "actions" : [{ "add" : { "index" : ".kibana\_9", "alias" : ".kibana" } }] }

Hi @flash1293.  
Thanks for your reply.  
After a few glitches and adjustments, your suggestion did work.  
Can't thank you enough.  
Best regards

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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:** [January 8, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-and-timelion-visualisations-all-missing/210960/4 "2020-01-08T13:15:58Z")

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