# What are Kibana Index and Kibana Task Manager?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 15, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107 "2019-11-15T16:44:11Z")
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### Author:  [@lantern77](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lantern77)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107/1 "2019-11-15T16:44:11Z")
I've been playing around with the new Kibana and Elasticsearch 7. I spun each up and noticed that kibana added two new indices, .kibana\_1 and .kibana\_task\_manager\_1. What has happened to the old .kibana index, and I can't seem to find documentation regarding these new indices online.
Could someone redirect me to documentation that covers this information in detail?
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107/2 "2019-11-18T21:03:01Z")
the .kibana index has been transformed to .kibana\_x (there is also a .kibana alias that points at the latest .kibana\_x index) which is used to maintain backup when upgrading/migrating. For example if your .kibana\_1 index is your main index and then you upgrade your Kibana instalation, Kibana will copy that index into .kibana\_2, perform the migrations and then change the .kibana alias to point to .kibana\_2.
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### Author:  [@lantern77](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lantern77)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107/3 "2019-11-20T18:17:04Z")
Thanks for the reply, by chance is there also documentation that reference this change?
Also what is the kibana\_task\_manager index?
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### Author:  [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107/4 "2019-11-20T18:23:48Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.7/upgrade-migrations.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.7/upgrade-migrations.html)
This is pretty much the documentation outside of the details you can find in the PRs that merged it.
as for the task\_manager index it's pretty much what the name says. It manages the running taks that can happen in Kibana, like monitoring, reporting and so on.
You can read more about it in the initial issue: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/23632](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/23632) and the related ones.
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### Author:  [@lantern77](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lantern77)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107/5 "2019-11-29T14:13:58Z")
Thanks, much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-kibana-index-and-kibana-task-manager/208107/6 "2019-12-27T14:14:09Z")
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