Dashboards & Visualizations

How to restore deleted data in dashboard

kdanielsobrien
Explorer

I have just set up a dashboard with some data from .csv files.

It was working until I made the local host available via link and it seems like all my data got deleted.

I can still see the CSV files in the Dataset and their corresponding lookups.
When I index the data, it says no results found.

Is there any way to get the data back without adding it again?
I am using the free version so I don't want to use all of my 500 MB.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

If it no longer shows with an All time search then somebody deleted it. If splunk did, then you should find evidence of it with this search:

index=_* bucketmover
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kdanielsobrien
Explorer

What kind of information would I be looking for in the results?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

The bucketmover process moves the buckets from hot -> warm (no problem there) and from warm -> cold (which in your case probably means deleted).

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mayurr98
Super Champion

Run this index=* in search bar and select All time in time range picker.

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kdanielsobrien
Explorer

I've tried that and it still says no results... I re-added the data again and everything was working fine.... A few days later it happened again

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mayurr98
Super Champion

well, that maybe because of the retention period. did you check what is the retention period for that index?

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kdanielsobrien
Explorer

I didn't change/modify the retention period. Where would I find that information?

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kdanielsobrien
Explorer

I should also mention the data is from 9 years ago.. Is the index retention period from the timestamp on the data or when it is uploaded to splunk?

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