# Dashboards and index patterns lost after upgrade from 7 to 8

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-upgrade-from-7-to-8/328531>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 25, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-upgrade-from-7-to-8/328531 "2023-03-25T21:46:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![SANDEEP\_SOMAPANGU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandeep_somapangu/32/118948_2.png) [@SANDEEP\_SOMAPANGU](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SANDEEP_SOMAPANGU)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-upgrade-from-7-to-8/328531/1 "2023-03-25T21:46:19Z")

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Hello, we recently upgraded from kibana version 7 to 8. In the previous version, we stored our configuration in the index named .kibana-abc\_7.17.9\_001. However, it appears that version 8 no longer supports this kind of indexing.

After the upgrade, the ".kibana" alias now points to the new index ".kibana\_8.0.1\_001". However, on comparing old and new indices, we noticed they are different and no custom dashboard information in the new index.

To resolve this, we redirected the ".kibana" alias back to the .kibana-abc\_7.17.9\_001 index, but we still can't see the dashboard and we're unsure if there are any compatibility issues.

When I run, "GET /.kibana-abc\_7.17.9\_001/\_search?q=type:dashboard" I see some errors on this output piece at "searchSourceJSON" -

"kibanaSavedObjectMeta" : {  
"searchSourceJSON" : """{"filter": , "query": {"query": "", "language": "kuery"}}"""  
},

Any idea on how to fix this?

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**Author:** ![SANDEEP\_SOMAPANGU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sandeep_somapangu/32/118948_2.png) [@SANDEEP\_SOMAPANGU](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SANDEEP_SOMAPANGU)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-upgrade-from-7-to-8/328531/2 "2023-03-26T03:15:15Z")

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update: I pointed both .kibana & .kibana\_8.0.1 alias to .kibana-abc\_7.17.9\_001. I dont see any dashboards or data views

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**Author:** ![Mehdi\_Aliakbar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mehdi_aliakbar/32/115158_2.png) [@Mehdi\_Aliakbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehdi_Aliakbar)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-upgrade-from-7-to-8/328531/3 "2023-03-26T03:40:53Z")

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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 23, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboards-and-index-patterns-lost-after-upgrade-from-7-to-8/328531/4 "2023-04-23T03:41:12Z")

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