Restore something you deleted

Deleted something by mistake? You have 14 days to put it back yourself — no support ticket, no administrator needed. This covers monitors, automations, dashboards, alert destinations, maintenance windows, saved templates (automation, DNS and firewall), tags, roles, custom fields and status pages.

Overview

• Anything you delete is kept for 14 days before it's permanently removed.
• You can restore it yourself, either right away or any time within that window.
• A restored item comes back exactly as it was — history, settings, steps, widgets and layout all included.

Undo right after deleting

1. After you delete something, a message appears in the corner with an Undo button.
2. Click Undo and the item comes straight back, exactly as it was.
3. The message disappears after about ten seconds, but that's not your only chance — you can still restore it later.

Restore from where the item lived

1. Go to the page the item lived on and look for Recently deleted near the bottom:
   • 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.
2. The section only appears when there is something to restore. If you don't see it, nothing of that kind has been deleted recently.
3. Click Restore on the entry you want back.

NoteCan't remember where the item lived? Go to Settings → Recycle bin. It lists 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.

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 Sync now on that integration and it comes back.
• If you deleted it at the provider, restore it there instead.

TipTo prevent accidents with servers, domains and similar resources, turn on Enable delete protection for the ones that matter.