# I can't access kibana - Select your space

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 18, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023 "2020-05-18T01:51:15Z")
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### Author: ![jjums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jjums](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjums)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/1 "2020-05-18T01:51:15Z")

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Hello,

I made my dashboard site using kibana 2 weeks ago, last week I can't access my kibana space.  
(elasticsearch & kibana version 7.6.2)  
I attached the image file, I can see only this msg " Select your space. You can change your space at any time" I can't see any menu on the left, they're all gone.  
I didn't install or any changes, the day before I can see the page but the day after I can't see...  
I need some help.

 ![kibana_selectyourspace](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/c/0cfe0d19335e44b79e2b96d53261a02443f575ed.png)

Following are elasticsearch log files(sorry, I can't write here because they are too long), please see and advice me what is the problem.

day#1  
[https://bit.ly/2TbDUgo](https://bit.ly/2TbDUgo)  
day#2  
[https://bit.ly/3g0wYwk](https://bit.ly/3g0wYwk)

And also let me now how can I restore my kibana dashboard.  
Thank you so much!

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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: [May 18, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/2 "2020-05-18T01:56:29Z")

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```auto
[2020-05-14T11:04:54,918][INFO][o.e.c.m.MetaDataDeleteIndexService] [ip- ***-** - **-**] [.kibana_1/lXwfUazBRbCMwoBxoZDHjg] deleting index

```

Is your cluster available on the internet, and did you setup access control?

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### Author: ![jjums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jjums](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjums)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/3 "2020-05-18T02:08:04Z")

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I didn't set up yet.

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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: [May 18, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/4 "2020-05-18T02:08:30Z")

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Then someone has deleted the Kibana index from Elasticsearch because it was exposed to the internet and unsecured.

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### Author: ![jjums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jjums](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjums)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2020, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/5 "2020-05-18T02:13:08Z")

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Thank you for your answer.  
I'm not programmer and developer, so I'm not familiar with log analysis.  
So, you mean I can't restore my kibana, do I have to reinstall?

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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: [May 18, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/6 "2020-05-18T02:23:59Z")

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Try restarting Kibana, it might recreate the missing index. However any dashboards that you created have been lost.

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### Author: ![jjums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jjums](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjums)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/7 "2020-05-18T02:28:39Z")

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I already did but it doesn't working. Thank you so much!

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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: [May 18, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/8 "2020-05-18T02:36:50Z")

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Ok try this. Stop Kibana and then run;

```auto
curl -X DELETE "localhost:9200/.kibana

```

Then check if there are any Kibana related indices;

```auto
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" 0:9200/_cat/indices?v | grep -i kibana

```

If there are any, delete them with something similar to the above command. Then start Kibana.

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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 15, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-access-kibana-select-your-space/233023/9 "2020-06-15T02:37:01Z")

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