# Kibana service restarting after few seconds

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 16, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418 "2021-04-16T19:49:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![prat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prat/32/79978_2.png) [@prat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prat)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418/21 "2021-04-22T07:21:04Z")

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@flash1293  
Can you please tell what can be the impact of deleting the `.kibana` and `.kibana_task_manager_1` indices. What things they hold?

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418/22 "2021-04-22T07:22:14Z")

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They contain all of your Kibana configuration - visualizations, dashboards, saved searches, spaces, ...

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**Author:** ![prat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prat/32/79978_2.png) [@prat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prat)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418/23 "2021-04-22T07:24:08Z")

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ok Thanks. so any saved visualizations, dashboards would get removed?

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418/24 "2021-04-22T07:27:39Z")

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Correct - you can export everything you want to keep before deleting it, then re-importing it once Kibana initialized a new `.kibana` index.

However, there's normally no need to do so. I'm not advicing you to delete the `.kibana` index every time you restart Kibana / Elasticsearch. This was just necessary this one time because you entered an invalid state on a fresh installation. Now you got a consistent `.kibana` index and everything should work just fine - also if you restart or even upgrade your Kibana/Elasticsearch stack.

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**Author:** ![prat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prat/32/79978_2.png) [@prat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prat)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418/25 "2021-04-23T10:38:52Z")

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Thanks @flash1293 for reply.

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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:** [May 21, 2021, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-service-restarting-after-few-seconds/270418/26 "2021-05-21T10:39:32Z")

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