# Upgrading 8.13.0 - 8.19.20 giving migrations error for kibana\_analytics index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-8-13-0-8-19-20-giving-migrations-error-for-kibana-analytics-index/389786>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 19, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-8-13-0-8-19-20-giving-migrations-error-for-kibana-analytics-index/389786 "2026-08-19T14:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![drewb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@drewb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drewb)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-8-13-0-8-19-20-giving-migrations-error-for-kibana-analytics-index/389786/1 "2026-08-19T14:06:05Z")

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`Unable to complete saved object migrations for the .kibana_analytics index. Unexpected Elasticsearch ResponseError: statuscode: 404, method: DELETE, url: /pit error: [undefiend]: ("succeeded":false,"num_freed":0}`

My error I am getting is above and I got this after migrating 8.13.0 to 8.19.20. Elasticsearch is not giving me errors and that seems to be running OK. I cannot get Kibana running due to this error. This is in a Windows environment if that helps.

Thank you in advance. 🙂

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrading-8-13-0-8-19-20-giving-migrations-error-for-kibana-analytics-index/389786/2 "2026-09-08T17:14:29Z")

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old question but I had similar issue for 8.16 and use this

migrations.discardUnknownObjects: "8.16.1" to bypass that errro.