Hi everyone, I have an issue with my dashboards. They are built on an index pattern, I wanted to know if I can delete the index safely and re-create another one with the same name ? Will I keep my dashboards safe, or will they be destroyed ? Has anyone faced that issue before ? Thank you in advan…

In this case you can note the id of the old index pattern the visualizations reference (the one they are complaining about when you want to view them) and after deleting the existing one with the new id recreate it specifying the old id in "Advanced options" in step two of the creation process: […

Delete and re-create an index pattern

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flash1293 (Joe Reuter) August 12, 2020, 9:40am 2

Why do you want to delete the index pattern? If the underlying mapping of your data indices changed, you can simply "refresh" the pattern using the button in the top right on the index pattern page:

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Delete and re-create an index pattern

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