# Kibana Dev tool history wiped out

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dev-tool-history-wiped-out/137701>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dev-tool-history-wiped-out/137701 "2018-06-27T22:40:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![sunny1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@sunny1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunny1)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dev-tool-history-wiped-out/137701/1 "2018-06-27T22:40:32Z")

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Hello, i had many commands in dev tool. I cleared firefox cookies and cache and now entire history for DEV tool is wiped out. Is it possible to recover it ?

Any help really appreciate.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 11:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dev-tool-history-wiped-out/137701/2 "2018-06-27T23:11:49Z")

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Ouch, sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do to restore that information, it's only ever written to localstorage, which lives exclusively in your browser. It's not in Elasticsearch or Kibana anywhere, so if you don't have it in your browser any longer, it's gone for good. 😢

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**Author:** ![sunny1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@sunny1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunny1)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dev-tool-history-wiped-out/137701/3 "2018-07-03T19:36:38Z")

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Humm Thanks Joe.

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dev-tool-history-wiped-out/137701/4 "2018-07-03T20:22:43Z")

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I should mention, you're welcome to open an issue [in the Kibana issue tracker](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues) about a more permanent solution to persisting that history.

I know in the past we've talked about possibly adding a history save/load functionality, but there were some concerns about permissions and we ended up not adding that. That's still a concern, but there's some stuff in place and being worked on that would help with that issue, and it could be useful to have an actual issue to track such a feature.

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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 31, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dev-tool-history-wiped-out/137701/5 "2018-07-31T20:22:48Z")

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