# Deleted .kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana/160702>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana/160702 "2018-12-13T09:55:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dinesh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dinesh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dinesh1)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana/160702/1 "2018-12-13T09:55:29Z")

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Hi Team,

I deleted .kibana index in elastic search and restarted kibana then kibana is getting error  
Unable to create Kibana index ".kibana"

How to resolve this..?

Regards,  
Dinesh

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana/160702/2 "2018-12-13T22:53:26Z")

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Are there any stack traces in the kibana logs? And which version of kibana/is security enabled?

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**Author:** ![dinesh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dinesh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dinesh1)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana/160702/3 "2018-12-14T05:24:05Z")

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There is no stack traces in the kibana logs and kibana version is 5.6.8.(elk stack----5.6.8)

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**Author:** ![dinesh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7bcc69/32.png) [@dinesh1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dinesh1)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana/160702/4 "2018-12-17T11:56:23Z")

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security is not enabled

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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 14, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleted-kibana/160702/5 "2019-01-14T11:56:27Z")

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