# Saved queries have gone missing in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-queries-have-gone-missing-in-kibana/111407>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 12, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-queries-have-gone-missing-in-kibana/111407 "2017-12-12T18:30:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![byoungman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/838e76/32.png) [@byoungman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/byoungman)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-queries-have-gone-missing-in-kibana/111407/1 "2017-12-12T18:30:19Z")

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We recently lost all of our indexes in Elastic (I accidentally deleted them) and am in the process of rebuilding them but a developer on my team came up to me this morning and informed me that all of the queries that he had written in Kibana are now gone.

My question / concern is did all of our indexes getting deleted also delete our saved queries?

I showed him how to export his object definitions in the Management \>\> Saved Objects section of Kibana

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-queries-have-gone-missing-in-kibana/111407/2 "2017-12-12T20:04:40Z")

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Hey @byoungman, if you deleted all indices in Elasticsearch, you'll have deleted all of the Saved Searches as well. Kibana stores all of it's Saved Objects in the `.kibana` index in Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![byoungman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/838e76/32.png) [@byoungman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/byoungman)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-queries-have-gone-missing-in-kibana/111407/3 "2017-12-12T20:39:44Z")

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Thanks Brandon

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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:** [January 9, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-queries-have-gone-missing-in-kibana/111407/4 "2018-01-09T20:39:54Z")

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Closed on January 9, 2018, 8:39pm UTC

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