# Watches index is missing in 7.6
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watches-index-is-missing-in-7-6/240206
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [July 7, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watches-index-is-missing-in-7-6/240206 "2020-07-07T18:58:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@srk1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srk1)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watches-index-is-missing-in-7-6/240206/1 "2020-07-07T18:58:58Z")
Hi Elastic team,
Watches index is missing all of a sudden and unable to locate all the previously located watches. After the cluster restart i can see the .watches index combing back but i can only find the ES monitored watches. Any reasons around it for missing and is there a way to get back those custom watches? Looks like there is no enough documentation this kind of issue. Please advice on this. Thanks
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watches-index-is-missing-in-7-6/240206/2 "2020-07-07T23:18:42Z")
It won't just go missing by itself, it must have been deleted.
Check your Elasticsearch logs to see if there was a delete request made for the index.
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### Author:  [@srk1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srk1)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watches-index-is-missing-in-7-6/240206/3 "2020-07-23T16:41:52Z")
Curator deleted the .watches index accidentally and i restored from the snapshot backup. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/watches-index-is-missing-in-7-6/240206/4 "2020-08-20T16:41:55Z")
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