# Help! deleted .kibana index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-deleted-kibana-index/161608>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-deleted-kibana-index/161608 "2018-12-20T00:59:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Malachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Malachi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Malachi)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-deleted-kibana-index/161608/1 "2018-12-20T00:59:16Z")

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After upgrading to 6.5.3 Kibana would not start with message "Kibana is not yet ready", optimizing wasn't finishing and eventually kibana was eating up all resources and crashing. In the course of troubleshooting, I deleted the .kibana index in elasticsearch without understanding the implications. Is there any hope of getting back my saved searches, dashboards, etc.???

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-deleted-kibana-index/161608/2 "2018-12-20T00:59:47Z")

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Unfortunately, not unless you took a backup.

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**Author:** ![Malachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Malachi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Malachi)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-deleted-kibana-index/161608/3 "2018-12-20T01:18:43Z")

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unfortunate indeed...thanks for the response

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-deleted-kibana-index/161608/4 "2018-12-20T01:36:59Z")

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Don't worry, I've done it myself a few times 🙂

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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 17, 2019, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-deleted-kibana-index/161608/5 "2019-01-17T01:37:03Z")

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