# Lesson 1.3 : Restore example blogs index in Kibana for “Search Data” lesson

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lesson-1-3-restore-example-blogs-index-in-kibana-for-search-data-lesson/379263>\
**Category:** Elastic Training\
**Created:** [June 17, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lesson-1-3-restore-example-blogs-index-in-kibana-for-search-data-lesson/379263 "2025-06-17T18:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyberm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@cyberm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberm)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lesson-1-3-restore-example-blogs-index-in-kibana-for-search-data-lesson/379263/1 "2025-06-17T18:49:10Z")

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Course: Elastic Engineer  
Version: Lab cloud  
Question:  
I was working on Lesson 1.3 “Search Data” and the `blogs` index appeared as a sample dataset in Kibana. I did not create it myself; it was provided by the exercise environment. I accidentally deleted it and now cannot continue with the exercises. I am asking where I can download or obtain that dataset to re-import it.

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**Author:** ![Rim\_El\_Ballouli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rim_el_ballouli/32/134930_2.png) [@Rim\_El\_Ballouli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rim_El_Ballouli)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lesson-1-3-restore-example-blogs-index-in-kibana-for-search-data-lesson/379263/2 "2025-06-18T07:47:53Z")

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Hello,

Let us first verify if you have deleted the blogs **index** , or the blogs **data view**. These are two different things.

Check the blogs data view:

- In Kibana go to main menu \> stack management \> data view
- You should see the data view here if it exists

Check the blogs index:

- in Kibana go to main menu \> Dev Tools (its under the management section)
- execute the following code in Dev Tools
- you will either get an index not found exception or get the count of documents in the index

```auto
GET /blogs/_count

```

Let us know the result of these verifications and we will help you from there.

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**Author:** ![cyberm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@cyberm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberm)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2025, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lesson-1-3-restore-example-blogs-index-in-kibana-for-search-data-lesson/379263/3 "2025-06-18T10:20:04Z")

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Hi Rim

```auto
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "index_not_found_exception",
        "reason": "no such index [blogs]",
        "resource.type": "index_or_alias",
        "resource.id": "blogs",
        "index_uuid": "_na_",
        "index": "blogs"
      }
    ],
    "type": "index_not_found_exception",
    "reason": "no such index [blogs]",
    "resource.type": "index_or_alias",
    "resource.id": "blogs",
    "index_uuid": "_na_",
    "index": "blogs"
  },
  "status": 404
}

```

The index and the data view not exists anymore

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**Author:** ![Rim\_El\_Ballouli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rim_el_ballouli/32/134930_2.png) [@Rim\_El\_Ballouli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rim_El_Ballouli)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lesson-1-3-restore-example-blogs-index-in-kibana-for-search-data-lesson/379263/4 "2025-06-20T10:18:14Z")

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Hello again,

I verified the lab steps and it seems the blogs index includes data that you add in previous lab steps to Kibana1 and Kibana2.

- If you are missing blogs index from kibana1 please repeat steps 4-12 from lab 1.2.
- If you are missing blogs index from Kibana2 please repeat steps 13-21 from lab 1.2.

I hope this helps. Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

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**Author:** ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2025, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lesson-1-3-restore-example-blogs-index-in-kibana-for-search-data-lesson/379263/5 "2025-06-21T08:18:51Z")

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Hello @cyberm

You can even restore the index from the snapshot

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/2/922934a8cdd277688adf902887a04409490e662f.png)

Thanks!!