# Data missing after ES restart

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154 "2015-08-27T05:30:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Tigryss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Tigryss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tigryss)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/21 "2015-09-02T11:12:41Z")

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i got now a log data from ES but is 2 big for pastebin. How can i send to u?

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**Author:** ![Tigryss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Tigryss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tigryss)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2015, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/22 "2015-09-02T11:53:05Z")

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hmm now i get this and ES is gone... :))

```
[2015-09-02 13:49:55,407][DEBUG][action.bulk] [logstash_prod] observer: timeout notification from cluster service. timeout setting [1m], time since start [1m]
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**Author:** ![Tigryss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Tigryss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tigryss)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/23 "2015-09-07T07:18:22Z")

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After ES update the error is the same...☹

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**Author:** ![zahid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e79b87/32.png) [@zahid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zahid)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/24 "2016-02-03T15:19:14Z")

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hi, im a newbie and i ve also similar issue with @Tigryss 🙂

In my case, i m using rsyslog+ES+Kibana for loggin and everything s fine then I ve restarted ES and kibana asked me to create new index pattern. so i created an index pattern with same as previous pattern. But after this step i could not view any old log records with kibana. I checked the old files from local cmdline they re still exist but kibana doesnt load any of them. i checked my nodes, i ve only one. But i ve some concerns about my elasticsearch.yml file.  
could you please guide me to solve this issue.

here s my indices dir  
elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices# ls -altrh  
total 156K  
drwxr-xr-x 4 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 29 15:17 ..  
drwxr-xr-x 4 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 29 15:17 .kibana  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 29 15:26 logstash-2015.12.29  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 30 00:17 logstash-2015.12.30  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 31 00:17 logstash-2015.12.31  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 2 06:42 logstash-2016.01.02  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 3 06:35 logstash-2016.01.03  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 4 06:52 logstash-2016.01.04  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 5 06:50 logstash-2016.01.05  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 6 06:54 logstash-2016.01.06  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 7 06:26 logstash-2016.01.07  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 8 06:38 logstash-2016.01.08  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 9 06:47 logstash-2016.01.09  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 10 06:43 logstash-2016.01.10  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 11 06:30 logstash-2016.01.11  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 12 06:36 logstash-2016.01.12  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 13 06:36 logstash-2016.01.13  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 14 00:00 logstash-2016.01.14  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 15 00:01 logstash-2016.01.15  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 16 00:01 logstash-2016.01.16  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 17 00:00 logstash-2016.01.17  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 18 00:00 logstash-2016.01.18  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 19 00:00 logstash-2016.01.19  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 20 00:00 logstash-2016.01.20  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 21 00:03 logstash-2016.01.21  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 22 01:34 logstash-2016.01.22  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 23 00:19 logstash-2016.01.23  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 24 00:28 logstash-2016.01.24  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 25 01:30 logstash-2016.01.25  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 26 00:01 logstash-2016.01.26  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 27 02:00 logstash-2016.01.27  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 28 02:00 logstash-2016.01.28  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 29 02:00 logstash-2016.01.29  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 30 02:00 logstash-2016.01.30  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Jan 31 02:00 logstash-2016.01.31  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Feb 1 05:02 logstash-2016.02.01  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Feb 2 05:40 logstash-2016.02.02  
drwxr-xr-x 39 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Feb 3 06:19 .  
drwxr-xr-x 8 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Feb 3 06:19 logstash-2016.02.03

my nodes dir  
/elasticsearch/nodes# ls -altrh  
total 12K  
drwxr-xr-x 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 29 15:17 ..  
drwxr-xr-x 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 29 15:17 .  
drwxr-xr-x 4 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4.0K Dec 29 15:17 0

and my elasticseach.yml - i uncommented only these two lines in network section all other lines are commented

network.host: localhost  
http.port: 9200

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/25 "2016-02-03T22:05:51Z")

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It'd be better if you created your own thread 🙂

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**Author:** ![Tigryss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Tigryss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tigryss)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/26 "2016-02-10T14:24:19Z")

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Hi can you send me the start parameters. 😃

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**Author:** ![Tigryss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Tigryss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tigryss)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/27 "2016-02-11T05:11:36Z")

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Try this,  
and check you es.yml for index store type.

DAEMON\_ARGS="-d --node.name=$NODENAME -Des.config=$CONFIG\_FILE -Des.path.home=$ES\_HOME -Des.path.logs=$LOG\_DIR -Des.logger.level=DEBUG -Des.path.data=$DATA\_DIR -Des.path.work=$WORK\_DIR"

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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 5, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-missing-after-es-restart/28154/28 "2017-07-05T23:17:22Z")

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