# Elastic search not loading
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-loading/275997
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-loading/275997 "2021-06-15T12:42:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@dorcas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dorcas)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-loading/275997/1 "2021-06-15T12:42:34Z")
Dear Team, I mistakenly deleted some indices folders inside data.nodes in elasticsearch. Now I have restarted the service but unable to access Kibana. Please find below the error logs.
```auto
policy [ilm-history-ilm-policy-7days] for index [documentupload] failed on step [{"phase":"hot","action":"rollover","name":"check-rollover-ready"}]. Moving to ERROR step
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setting [index.lifecycle.rollover_alias] for index [documentupload] is empty or not defined
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-loading/275997/2 "2021-06-15T22:45:13Z")
Please - **never, ever** make changes to the filesystem that Elasticsearch uses. **ALWAYS** use the APIs.
That error does not look like it would stop Kibana from loading however.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-not-loading/275997/3 "2021-07-13T22:45:54Z")
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