# Visualization type is missing after upgrade

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-type-is-missing-after-upgrade/79880>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 24, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-type-is-missing-after-upgrade/79880 "2017-03-24T11:39:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![darkelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b77776/32.png) [@darkelf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/darkelf)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-type-is-missing-after-upgrade/79880/1 "2017-03-24T11:39:46Z")

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Hello,  
I upgrade es from 2 to 5 and kibana from 4 to 5. My old Kibana 4 had some searchs, visualizations and a dashboard. I didn't backup them. My failure.

Now, Kibana 5 shows my searchs and the Dashboard skeletron, but no visualizations. If I click to Visualize, there is a red message: "Saved Visualization Service: Visualization type is missing. Please add a type to this visualization."

Can I do something to bring my old visualizations back?

Thank you,  
darkelf

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**Author:** ![Stacey\_Gammon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stacey_gammon/32/14025_2.png) [@Stacey\_Gammon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stacey_Gammon)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-type-is-missing-after-upgrade/79880/2 "2017-03-24T16:07:24Z")

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If you go into management and view a visualization object's raw data, do you see a type attribute? If not, try adding it back in and see if that helps. It'll be something like `area`, `line`, etc.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/e/5ea744fa35a2cd498ec26c3339c6c1eace89367f.png)

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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:** [April 21, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-type-is-missing-after-upgrade/79880/3 "2017-04-21T16:07:25Z")

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