# How to restore a seach

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 15, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210 "2016-12-15T18:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![markd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markd/32/13290_2.png) [@markd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markd)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-a-seach/69210/6 "2016-12-16T00:42:28Z")

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Mark,  
wait a second, this was a search that came with Metricbeats..... Can I reinstall metricbeats to get is back, this should work? I will not lose the data?  
Thanks,MarkD:-)

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