# Restore something you deleted

> Deleted something by mistake? You have 14 days to put it back yourself — no support ticket, no administrator.

Source: https://infranest.io/docs/restore-something-you-deleted
Last updated: 2026-09-19

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Accidentally deleted a monitor, automation, dashboard, or something else? This article shows anyone on your team how to bring it back within the recovery window.

## Overview

- You have **14 days** to restore something you deleted yourself — no need to contact an administrator or open a support ticket.
- This covers monitors, automations, dashboards, alert destinations, maintenance windows, saved templates (automation, DNS and firewall), tags, roles, custom fields and status pages.
- After 14 days, the item is permanently removed and can't be recovered.

## Restore right after deleting

1. Delete the item as usual.
2. Watch for the message that appears in the corner of the screen with an **Undo** button.
3. Click **Undo** and the item comes straight back, exactly as it was.

> [!NOTE]
The message disappears after about ten seconds, but that isn't your only chance — you can still restore the item later.

## Restore later from where it lived

1. Go to the page the item lived on.
2. Look near the bottom of the page for **Recently deleted**:
   - **Monitors** — the Monitoring page, under the list of monitors.
   - **Automations** — the Automations page, under the list of rules.
   - **Alert destinations** — the Alerts page.
   - **Maintenance windows** — the Maintenance page.
   - **Templates** — under the list they belong to: automation templates in the template gallery, DNS templates and firewall templates on their own pages.
   - **Status pages** — the Status pages page.
   - **Tags, roles and custom fields** — in **Settings → Recycle bin**, next to their own settings tabs.
   - **Dashboards** — open the dashboard menu (the arrow next to the dashboard's name) and choose **Recently deleted**.
3. If **Recently deleted** doesn't appear, nothing of that kind has been deleted recently.

## Restore from the Recycle bin

1. If you can't remember where the item lived, go to **Settings → Recycle bin**.
2. Browse the list — it shows everything your team deleted in the last 14 days, whatever kind it is, in one place. Each entry shows who deleted it, when, and how many days are left.
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3. Click **Restore** on the item you want back.
4. Confirm — it returns with everything it had. A monitor keeps its history and settings, an automation keeps its steps, and a dashboard keeps its widgets and layout.

## Good to know

- **Nothing runs while it's deleted.** A deleted monitor doesn't check anything or send alerts, a deleted automation doesn't fire, and a deleted alert destination receives nothing. A deleted maintenance window stops holding alerts back, so alerts it was suppressing start coming through again. Restoring puts all of that back.
- **After 14 days it's gone for good.** Once the countdown runs out, the item is permanently removed and cannot be recovered.
- **A restored dashboard won't take over as your default.** If you set another dashboard as your default in the meantime, that one stays your default.
- **Plan limits still apply.** If you've reached your plan's limit for monitors or automations since deleting one, you'll need to remove or upgrade before you can restore it.
- **A name that's been taken blocks the restore.** Delete a tag called "prod" and make a new one with the same name, and the old one can't come back — the name is in use. Rename the new one first, then restore. The same goes for roles, custom fields, and a status page's web address.
- **Roles in use can't be deleted at all.** Move members to another role first — otherwise they'd lose access the moment the role went.
- **Dashboards are personal.** You'll only see your own deleted dashboards, and only you can restore them.
- **Restoring a role needs permission to manage roles**, because a role is what grants access.
- **Tags come back attached to everything they were on**, and a restored custom field brings back every value anyone had entered.
- **Deleting a template doesn't undo its work.** Zones and firewalls you already created from a template stay exactly as they are.
- **You need the same permission you'd need to delete it.** If your role can't delete monitors, it can't restore them either.

## Troubleshooting

**Servers, domains, DNS zones and records, volumes and firewalls aren't in Recently deleted.** Those live in your provider account (Hetzner, Cloudflare, TransIP and so on) — InfraNest just shows you what's there.

- If one disappears from InfraNest but still exists at your provider, run a **sync** on that integration and it comes back.
- If you deleted it at the provider, restore it there instead.

> [!TIP]
To prevent accidents with servers or volumes, turn on **Enable delete protection** for the ones that matter.