# Visualizations became uneditable

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-became-uneditable/222686
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 9, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-became-uneditable/222686 "2020-03-09T10:39:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Travis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/travis/32/54079_2.png) [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-became-uneditable/222686/1 "2020-03-09T10:39:36Z")

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Hello there,

I noticed than suddenly, my visualization became uneditable (nothing happen when I click on the edit logo). I also can't see them in the dashboard.

Error message when loading the dashboard is :

> Could not locate that index-pattern (id: 9becc960-ee7d-11e9-a805-2f4381101ce9), click here to re-create it

Only change made is stack upgrade to 7.6

I didn't changed any security roles or index privilege

I can view logs in discover, and create new visualization but can't do nothing on existing ones

Any idea on how to figure this out ?

Thanks for your feedback 😉

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### Author: ![Travis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/travis/32/54079_2.png) [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-became-uneditable/222686/2 "2020-03-09T10:52:47Z")

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OK solved by following @nixhoofd post [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-error-could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-although-it-exists/112876/11)

Now I'm just asking is this is a bug introduced by the upgrade 🤔

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### Author: ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-became-uneditable/222686/3 "2020-03-10T00:09:08Z")

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We don't delete index patterns during upgrades - are there any other users of the instance they might have mistakenly removed the index pattern?

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### Author: ![Travis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/travis/32/54079_2.png) [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-became-uneditable/222686/4 "2020-03-10T07:51:46Z")

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Hello @tylersmalley,

No. I'm the only one admin of the stack. Index pattern was not deleted, but it's like a reference was broken

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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 7, 2020, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-became-uneditable/222686/5 "2020-04-07T07:51:47Z")

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