# It is safe to delete .kibana\_1, .kibana\_2 and kibana\_task\_manager\_1?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-safe-to-delete-kibana-1-kibana-2-and-kibana-task-manager-1/224930
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-safe-to-delete-kibana-1-kibana-2-and-kibana-task-manager-1/224930 "2020-03-25T02:02:31Z")
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### Author:  [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-safe-to-delete-kibana-1-kibana-2-and-kibana-task-manager-1/224930/1 "2020-03-25T02:02:31Z")
I ask this because Im having trouble to get metricbeat dashboard working, and I found this link: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/53878](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/53878)
where people say that deleting those indices you can get the dashboards working again
```auto
green open .kibana_task_manager_1 g_3ywTOcSjmQxsMwt5VYGg 1 1 2 1 80.8kb 40.4kb
green open .kibana_2 u8PwnljuQPiHIwMrUeJgSg 1 1 470 4 3.4mb 2mb
green open .kibana_1 Ju8f8hFzRnKqPzDyNMw5Gw 1 1 6 0 29kb 14.5kb
```
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### Author:  [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-safe-to-delete-kibana-1-kibana-2-and-kibana-task-manager-1/224930/2 "2020-03-25T05:45:19Z")
Hi
You shouldn't need to delete those indices, could you provide some details about the problem you're facing? which version of Kibana are you using?
Many thx & Best,
Matthias
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### Author:  [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-safe-to-delete-kibana-1-kibana-2-and-kibana-task-manager-1/224930/3 "2020-03-25T13:03:49Z")
Hi, Mathias
7.5.1 Elastic, Kibana
7.6.1 Metricbeat
I've try to create a custom index name
```auto
setup.dashboards.enabled: true
setup.dashboards.directory: "/usr/share/metricbeat/kibana"
setup.dashboards.index: "test*"
setup.template.name: "test_mtb"
setup.template.pattern: "test_mtb*"
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ["myip"]
username: "myusr"
password: "mypass"
index: "test"
setup.ilm.enabled: auto
setup.ilm.rollover_alias: "test_mtb"
setup.ilm.pattern: "{now/d}-000001"
```
With this configuration some visualizations doesn't appears and show me this error
```auto
Could not locate that index-pattern (id:test*), [click here to re-create it](#/management/kibana/index_pattern)
```
so kibana is looking for a visualization with id of "test\*" instead of alphanumeric key, and in some cases I can manualy change the id in the visualization Json to get it to work
```auto
[ {
"name": "kibanaSavedObjectMeta.searchSourceJSON.index",
"type": "index-pattern",
"id": "test*" # replaced this for the id of the index
}]
```
Im monitoring docker also, but the dashboard of docker doesnt show any result, but if I go to discovery I can find data of the docker containers
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### Author:  [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-safe-to-delete-kibana-1-kibana-2-and-kibana-task-manager-1/224930/4 "2020-03-25T19:35:07Z")
Maybe it‘s because you‘re using metricbeat in a minor version ahead of kibana, I’ll check if this is a known issue
Best,
Matthias
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2020, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/it-is-safe-to-delete-kibana-1-kibana-2-and-kibana-task-manager-1/224930/5 "2020-04-22T19:35:11Z")
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