Missing Search Indices After Restart/Redeploy

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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Missing Search Indices After Restart/Redeploy

Written By

Justin Bowman

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Issue

Upon restarting or redeploying the search service, you may notice that Liferay indices may be missing within your environment. Restarting or Redeploying a service that does not have a volume set can lead to this behavior.

Environment

Liferay PaaS

Resolution

To avoid having to reindex for future restarts or redeployments, please be sure to set a volume for the search service within the LCP.json file:

"volumes": {
    "esdata": "/data"
  }

You will need to perform a reindex in order to rebuild the search indices following a restart or redeploy. As reindex processes may take a long time, please schedule this during your maintenance hours as to not impact users.