# Scylladb monitoring data vanish after restarting start-all.sh

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-monitoring-data-vanish-after-restarting-start-all-sh/2795>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
**Tags:** scylladb-monitoring\
**Created:** [August 27, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-monitoring-data-vanish-after-restarting-start-all-sh/2795 "2024-08-27T12:42:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![sachinkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@sachinkumar](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/sachinkumar)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-monitoring-data-vanish-after-restarting-start-all-sh/2795/1 "2024-08-27T12:42:41Z")

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Hi,

Scylladb monitoring data on grafana vanish after restarting start-all.sh  
Could you please help me to keep it even after restart.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![tzach](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/tzach/32/172_2.png) [@tzach](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/tzach)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-monitoring-data-vanish-after-restarting-start-all-sh/2795/2 "2024-08-28T05:14:03Z")

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“Note  
Specifying an external directory is important for systems in production. Without it, every restart of the monitoring stack will result in metrics lost.”

> **[The start-all.sh Command | ScyllaDB Docs](https://monitoring.docs.scylladb.com/stable/install/start-all.html#prometheus-related-commands)**
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> Scylla Monitoring Stack is a full stack for Scylla monitoring and alerting. The stack contains open source tools including Prometheus and Grafana, as well as custom Scylla dashboards and tooling.

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**Author:** ![sachinkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@sachinkumar](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/sachinkumar)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/scylladb-monitoring-data-vanish-after-restarting-start-all-sh/2795/3 "2024-08-28T06:34:58Z")

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Hi, Thanks for quick response. I am using command “./start-all.sh -d //prometheus\_data”  
Anything else I have to take care ?

Thanks