diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/table/Table.tsx b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/table/Table.tsx
index 30b3f8f0..643a073a 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/table/Table.tsx
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/table/Table.tsx
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import { useLocalSetting } from "@hive/shared/settings-storage.js";
 import { MultiselectFilterOptions } from "../multiselect-filter/MultiselectFilter.js";
 import { focusInto, restoreFocus } from "../popover/focus.js";
 import { clampLeft } from "./popover-position.js";
+import { forExistingColumns } from "./table-filters.js";
 import "./Table.css";
 
 export interface TableColumn<T> {
@@ -157,9 +158,15 @@ export function useTableFilters<T>(
   rows: T[],
   storageKey: string,
 ) {
-  const [filters, setFilters] = useLocalSetting<
+  const [saved, setFilters] = useLocalSetting<
     Record<string, ColumnFilterState>
   >(storageKey, {});
+  // A saved filter on a column that no longer exists would hide every row;
+  // work from the live ones, so the next save drops the rest.
+  const filters = forExistingColumns(
+    saved,
+    columns.map((c) => c.key),
+  );
 
   const activeFilters = Object.entries(filters).filter(([, f]) =>
     isFilterActive(f),
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/table/table-filters.ts b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/table/table-filters.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..34c70f1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/src/ui/table/table-filters.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// What a table does with the filters it remembered, without a DOM.
+
+/**
+ * The saved filters whose column still exists. Filters are kept by column
+ * key, so one saved for a column a later deploy renamed or removed would
+ * match no row and hide every one; it is ignored instead, and dropped the
+ * next time the filters are saved.
+ */
+export function forExistingColumns<F>(
+  filters: Record<string, F>,
+  columnKeys: string[],
+): Record<string, F> {
+  return Object.fromEntries(
+    Object.entries(filters).filter(([key]) => columnKeys.includes(key)),
+  );
+}
diff --git a/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/test/table-filters.test.mjs b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/test/table-filters.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..28119d59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/packages/swarm-ui/test/table-filters.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+// Which remembered table filters still apply. Run by `npm test`, which Node
+// runs with its built-in test runner and type stripping, so the `.ts` module
+// is imported as it is.
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import { forExistingColumns } from "../src/ui/table/table-filters.ts";
+
+test("a filter on a column that is gone is ignored", () => {
+  const saved = { status: { value: "up" }, oldName: { value: "x" } };
+  assert.deepEqual(forExistingColumns(saved, ["status", "name"]), {
+    status: { value: "up" },
+  });
+});
+
+test("filters on columns that all exist are kept, and none is fine", () => {
+  const saved = { a: 1, b: 2 };
+  assert.deepEqual(forExistingColumns(saved, ["a", "b"]), saved);
+  assert.deepEqual(forExistingColumns({}, ["a"]), {});
+});