# How to get deleted dashboards and visualizations in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-deleted-dashboards-and-visualizations-in-kibana/130431>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 3, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-deleted-dashboards-and-visualizations-in-kibana/130431 "2018-05-03T10:49:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![shwesinhan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shwesinhan/32/78663_2.png) [@shwesinhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shwesinhan)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-deleted-dashboards-and-visualizations-in-kibana/130431/1 "2018-05-03T10:49:41Z")

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hi there!

is there anyway to get back deleted dashboards and visualizations in kibana?  
coz' someone deleted accidentally. my dashboards are gone 😥

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-deleted-dashboards-and-visualizations-in-kibana/130431/2 "2018-05-03T14:00:41Z")

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The dashboards and visualizations are saved inside the .kibana index on your Elasticsearch cluster. If you had backup done to it, you can recover them from there, but otherwise there is now way.  
To prevent this from happening, you can call the Import/Export API in Kibana at a regular time from a script and save backups for them.

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/10858>

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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:** [June 1, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-deleted-dashboards-and-visualizations-in-kibana/130431/4 "2018-06-01T01:57:01Z")

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