# I need to re-create my .watcher & monitoring-6 index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-re-create-my-watcher-monitoring-6-index/146289>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-re-create-my-watcher-monitoring-6-index/146289 "2018-08-28T08:19:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jamesl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamesl)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-re-create-my-watcher-monitoring-6-index/146289/1 "2018-08-28T08:19:53Z")

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Hi. I had a major system outage this morning and when I booted all nodes up again both my .watcher and .monitoring indices would not allocate to the data nodes, cluster was red.

I tried closing and re opening them but they would not come good.

I deleted them and now I can get into Kibana but I know I need to re-create them again.

Is there a procedure to get this done?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![jamesl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jamesl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamesl)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-re-create-my-watcher-monitoring-6-index/146289/2 "2018-08-28T09:07:31Z")

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I deleted my .triggered\_watches and then restarted the nodes.. Came good. I got back my .watches and .triggered\_watchers also was recreated.

.monitoring-alerts-6 came back as well after a short while.

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-re-create-my-watcher-monitoring-6-index/146289/3 "2018-09-07T10:38:07Z")

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Thanks for the update! Glad you got everything resolved.

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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:** [October 5, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-need-to-re-create-my-watcher-monitoring-6-index/146289/4 "2018-10-05T10:38:08Z")

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