# What is the ID in documents or surrounding documents links?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-id-in-documents-or-surrounding-documents-links/147115>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 3, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-id-in-documents-or-surrounding-documents-links/147115 "2018-09-03T20:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-id-in-documents-or-surrounding-documents-links/147115/4 "2018-09-04T09:08:44Z")

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The id does not change once the index pattern has been created. By default, Kibana assigns a random uuid during creation. The id can also be manually specified via the `Advanced Options` in the index pattern creation wizard:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/b/0b4db14cdb751f3733550cdf9b30cb2df872df46.png)

So you have to take care that the correct id is specified when creating the index pattern or when restoring from a backup.

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