# Another "Unable to Configure an index pattern" in Kibana 5.3

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/another-unable-to-configure-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-5-3/85399
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/another-unable-to-configure-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-5-3/85399 "2017-05-11T12:48:42Z")
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### Author: ![elisanm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc79bd/32.png) [@elisanm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elisanm)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/another-unable-to-configure-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-5-3/85399/1 "2017-05-11T12:48:43Z")

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Sorry to bother you with this issue but after several hours trying to figure out what happens with my installation I do not spot the reason.

I'm running 5.3 versions of ELK on my local Ubuntu desktop.  
The ELK installation went well and I see all the components up and running, but when I try to create the first index pattern, the web page [http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/management/kibana/index/?\_g=()](http://localhost:5601/app/kibana#/management/kibana/index/?_g=()) does not allow me to input the time-field name.

I checked similar topics already opened here and after some reading I'm still stuck.

For example, in response to  
[http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices/users?v](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices/users?v)

I got:

{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"index\_not\_found\_exception","reason":"no such index","resource.type":"index\_or\_alias","[resource.id](http://resource.id)":"users","index\_uuid":"_na_","index":"users"}],"type":"index\_not\_found\_exception","reason":"no such index","resource.type":"index\_or\_alias","[resource.id](http://resource.id)":"users","index\_uuid":"_na_","index":"users"},"status":404}

and  
$\> curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_aliases?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_aliases?pretty)'

I got this:

{  
".kibana" : {  
"aliases" : { }  
}  
}

Can somebody help on this ?

Cheers

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### Author: ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/another-unable-to-configure-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-5-3/85399/2 "2017-05-11T15:54:49Z")

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It looks like you don't have any "users" index. Have you indexed any data in Elasticsearch?

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### Author: ![elisanm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc79bd/32.png) [@elisanm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elisanm)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/another-unable-to-configure-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-5-3/85399/3 "2017-05-12T09:22:12Z")

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> [@elisanm](#):
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> [http://localhost:9200/\_aliases?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_aliases?pretty)

Thanks Lukas,

Following the Kibana documentation to load data I managed to put it manually. Now, I see the stuff there and I can configure indexes.

curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_aliases?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_aliases?pretty)'  
{  
"shakespeare" : {  
"aliases" : { }  
},  
"logstash-2015.05.20" : {  
"aliases" : { }  
},  
"bank" : {  
"aliases" : { }  
},  
".kibana" : {  
"aliases" : { }  
},  
"logstash-2015.05.19" : {  
"aliases" : { }  
},  
"logstash-2015.05.18" : {  
"aliases" : { }  
}  
}

Still remains why I can't see the other indexes from Logstash / Filebeat.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/another-unable-to-configure-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-5-3/85399/4 "2017-06-09T09:36:13Z")

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