# Restarting ELK services deletes saved dashboards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-elk-services-deletes-saved-dashboards/52626>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 13, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-elk-services-deletes-saved-dashboards/52626 "2016-06-13T14:53:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chad\_Collins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c4cdca/32.png) [@Chad\_Collins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chad_Collins)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-elk-services-deletes-saved-dashboards/52626/1 "2016-06-13T14:53:57Z")

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Has anyone else come across this problem?

Extra Information:

- Indices were created and dashboards were imported from a JSON before the restart

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 3:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-elk-services-deletes-saved-dashboards/52626/2 "2016-06-14T03:51:39Z")

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Are you in some kind of container (docker etc)?

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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 6, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restarting-elk-services-deletes-saved-dashboards/52626/3 "2017-07-06T13:50:39Z")

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