# Cannot Create Index Pattern Cannot find Elasticsearch Data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-index-pattern-cannot-find-elasticsearch-data/172782>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-index-pattern-cannot-find-elasticsearch-data/172782 "2019-03-18T13:35:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meredith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Meredith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Meredith)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-index-pattern-cannot-find-elasticsearch-data/172782/1 "2019-03-18T13:35:46Z")

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I have indicies in Elasticsearch and need to create an index pattern in Kibana. When I run a GET /\_cat/indices?v I get the following:

health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size  
yellow open security\_review T8PoIlwtTkSTQBbSvVNGxA 5 1 0 0 1.2kb 1.2kb  
green open .kibana Ym9OxeNVSDSBPkopXxDxzA 1 0 2 0 9.6kb 9.6kb  
yellow open security\_review-1-1 xVhguASpTbOw01Wm1qpejw 5 1 0 0 1.2kb 1.2kb

When I try to go to management, it says" Couldn't find any Elasticsearch data. You'll need to index some data into Elasticsearch before you can create an index pattern."

How can I create an index pattern?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-index-pattern-cannot-find-elasticsearch-data/172782/2 "2019-03-18T13:45:20Z")

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Those indices do not hold any data (0 documents reported). If you add some data you should be able to create an index pattern.

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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:** [April 15, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-index-pattern-cannot-find-elasticsearch-data/172782/3 "2019-04-15T13:45:21Z")

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