# Index in Elasticsearch is getting deleted intermitently

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-in-elasticsearch-is-getting-deleted-intermitently/63400>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-in-elasticsearch-is-getting-deleted-intermitently/63400 "2016-10-19T13:56:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![prasad.ram1431](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c89c15/32.png) [@prasad.ram1431](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prasad.ram1431)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-in-elasticsearch-is-getting-deleted-intermitently/63400/1 "2016-10-19T13:56:12Z")

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Hi,

I have created an index in elasticsearch and loaded some data. After some days, when I am trying to get data from the index, I am getting error message saying like, index not found.

Kindly let me know why this is happening and how to solve this issue without recreating the index.

Thanks,  
Ram Prasad G

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-in-elasticsearch-is-getting-deleted-intermitently/63400/2 "2016-10-19T14:31:21Z")

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Probably someone/something removed your index.  
Elasticsearch does not remove indices.

Check your logs, you should see that index has been removed at some point or something else like major errors.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-in-elasticsearch-is-getting-deleted-intermitently/63400/3 "2017-07-05T22:11:11Z")

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