# How to restore dashboards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393 "2018-11-05T12:08:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@emma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emma1)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393/1 "2018-11-05T12:08:27Z")
I did delete \* in dev environment by mistake
how to restore it ☹ ;(
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393/2 "2018-11-05T12:31:20Z")
If you have a snapshot, you can use that. Otherwise the data is unfortunately gone...
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### Author:  [@emma1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emma1)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393/3 "2018-11-05T17:07:18Z")
where can i see the snapshot
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393/4 "2018-11-05T17:52:33Z")
Have you [taken a snapshot](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.4/modules-snapshots.html)? Snapshots are not created automatically unless you are using a cluster on Elastic Cloud Elasticsearch Service.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-restore-dashboards/155393/5 "2018-12-03T17:52:35Z")
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