# Elasticsearch has deleted all my visualizations and indexes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-has-deleted-all-my-visualizations-and-indexes/239157>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-has-deleted-all-my-visualizations-and-indexes/239157 "2020-06-29T16:32:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anton91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Anton91](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anton91)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-has-deleted-all-my-visualizations-and-indexes/239157/1 "2020-06-29T16:32:18Z")

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Hello,

today I wanted to continue working on my visualizations and already at the registration I was shown That I cannot select a Space. Then I restarted my machine and thought nothing else. Afterwards I could log in again in Kibana and had to realize that everything is deleted. I looked into the elasticsearch logs and saw that all my indexes were deleted tonight. Here is a small excerpt from the logs:

I can not explain why! I did nothing over the weekend. This is happening twice already. The next problem, now I want to upload my backups -\>Management -\> Saved Object -\> import I get the following message: Sorry, there was an error  
The file could not be processed.

Best regards

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-has-deleted-all-my-visualizations-and-indexes/239157/2 "2020-06-29T16:41:36Z")

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It looks like there was an index named `hello` created. Do you by any chance have your cluster exposed and accessible from the internet without any security enabled so taht someone could have accessed it?

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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 27, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-has-deleted-all-my-visualizations-and-indexes/239157/3 "2020-07-27T16:41:39Z")

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