# Deleted .kibana\_2 index and now kibana stopped running
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329 "2020-01-23T21:46:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Mehak\_Bhargava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehak_Bhargava)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329/1 "2020-01-23T21:46:02Z")
I was deleting indexes and deleted .kibana\_2 and after that my kibana stopped running. I have another index .kibana\_1. Should I delete that too an drestart kibana? But how do i delete it? I cant access the dev tools page on kibana GUI to perform GET \_cat/indexes?v
```auto
start, please set xpack.reporting.encryptionKey in kibana.yml
log [21:39:49.400] [info][status][plugin:reporting@7.4.0] Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready
log [21:39:49.481] [info][migrations] Creating index .kibana_2.
log [21:39:49.507] [info][migrations] Creating index .kibana_task_manager_1.
log [21:39:49.853] [info][migrations] Pointing alias .kibana_task_manager to .kibana_task_manager_1.
log [21:39:49.905] [info][migrations] Reindexing .kibana to .kibana_1
log [21:39:49.958] [warning][migrations] Another Kibana instance appears to be migrating the index. Waiting for that migration to complete. If no other Kibana instance is attempting migrations, you can get past this message by deleting index .kibana_1 and restarting Kibana.
log [21:39:49.965] [info][migrations] Finished in 458ms.
```
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329/2 "2020-01-23T22:13:10Z")
Try deleting the 3 indexes: `.kibana` , `.kibana_1` and `.kibana_2` and restarting the kibana service and check the logs. This should work for you. Let us know
Thanks
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@Mehak\_Bhargava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehak_Bhargava)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329/3 "2020-01-23T22:24:31Z")
```auto
yellow open logstash UBixB3wMSJmwoDaHeEOBcg 1 1 759725 0 274.2mb 274.2mb
green open .kibana_task_manager_1 ZgPpIuUyRzanjFOiom3FSg 1 0 2 4 45.6kb 45.6kb
yellow open mehak N6ttCpigRuG6RRMH3kpD3g 1 1 0 0 283b 283b
green open .apm-agent-configuration WAdlGHwxSZCF3EQ8CzkeIA 1 0 0 0 283b 283b
green open kibana_sample_data_logs ggwEDYXfRxem0CIsgOpssQ 1 0 14074 0 11.1mb 11.1mb
green open .kibana_1 F22MPzabTfyEamcqzkN_SQ 1 0 4 0 17.8kb 17.8kb
green open .tasks 8HzlaiA-QZmYPGBhotuSJA 1 0 1 0 6.3kb 6.3kb
```
So which indexes should not be created?
And before i had multiple indexes created under multiple log files. But they arent creating now under same config files. Does it the stopping of multiple indexes being created have anything to do with the .kibana\_1,2 indexes being deleted?
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### Author:  [@Mehak\_Bhargava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehak_Bhargava)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329/4 "2020-01-23T22:48:40Z")
@rashmi, Also, I have filebeat running on a server and logstash running on my VM and I have given index format as
```auto
index => "DataEdgeAppServer"
```
but each time filebeat ships logs to logstash, they are collecting under new index created called - logstash. Is it due to ILM in action? Why even after manually typing index name, logstash configuration is using logstash as index name ?
thanks!
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329/5 "2020-01-23T23:31:35Z")
Can you please provide the configuration for your Filebeat and Logstash instances.
also am cc'ing @andrewkroh for more inputs, if any.
Thanks
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@Mehak\_Bhargava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehak_Bhargava)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329/7 "2020-01-25T01:31:48Z")
Fixed the issue. Just restarted services and that format for index is incorrect. Index have to be lower case.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana-2-index-and-now-kibana-stopped-running/216329/8 "2020-02-22T01:31:58Z")
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