# Kibana visualizations & dashboards lost on upgrade from 6.6.1 to 7.0.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualizations-dashboards-lost-on-upgrade-from-6-6-1-to-7-0-1/188899>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualizations-dashboards-lost-on-upgrade-from-6-6-1-to-7-0-1/188899 "2019-07-04T11:17:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![shivani\_aggarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@shivani\_aggarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivani_aggarwal)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualizations-dashboards-lost-on-upgrade-from-6-6-1-to-7-0-1/188899/1 "2019-07-04T11:17:23Z")

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I had deployed kibana-6.6.1-oss and created some visualizations, index patterns and dashboards in kibana.  
My .kibana\_1 was created as shown below:

 ![PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/0/901e704d1b67e7f8fa3b74b3fdac2b2b8eea47e2.jpeg)

I upgraded my ELK cluster to 7.0.1 (oss). All my data is retained but I see .kibana\_1 index document count has decreased.

 ![PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/6/b638e6c46f64ac595c9d03be1377ba12b098ea70.jpeg)

And on the UI i see all my visualizations & dashboards have been deleted.  
Is the kibana index deleted on upgrade?

In kibana logs after upgrade, i see this

> {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-04T10:10:25Z","tags":["info","migrations"],"pid":1,"message":"Creating index .kibana\_1."}  
> {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-04T10:10:26Z","tags":["info","migrations"],"pid":1,"message":"Pointing alias .kibana to .kibana\_1."}  
> {"type":"log","@timestamp":"2019-07-04T10:10:26Z","tags":["info","migrations"],"pid":1,"message":"Finished in 1295ms."}

How can i retain the data stored in .kibana\_1 index from previous cluster?

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualizations-dashboards-lost-on-upgrade-from-6-6-1-to-7-0-1/188899/2 "2019-07-12T09:41:53Z")

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Did you run the Kibana upgrade assistant before upgrading? It should point you through all the steps required to keep all your documents.

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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:** [August 9, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-visualizations-dashboards-lost-on-upgrade-from-6-6-1-to-7-0-1/188899/3 "2019-08-09T09:42:01Z")

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