Cannot create index pattern using alias using elasticsearch 6.2.2

[amiyadutta]

Hi,

I have created one alias by combining two filebeat indexces but not able to create index pattern in Kibana.

I have go through following links -

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html

also visited following forum and come to know that it's know issue, could you please let us know when this issue get resolved.
We are using elasticsearch 6.2.2

Forum Link - Cannot create index pattern using alias

Our configuration and output as follows -

POST /_aliases
{
"actions" : [
{ "add" : { "index" : "filebeat-2018.02.27", "alias" : "alias02" } },
{ "add" : { "index" : "filebeat-2018.02.26", "alias" : "alias02" } }
]
}

Curl output -

curl http://localhost:9200/_cat/aliases?v
alias index filter routing.index routing.search
alias02 filebeat-2018.02.27 - - -
alias02 filebeat-2018.02.28 - - -

GET output -

GET /_alias/alias02

{
"filebeat-2018.02.27": {
"aliases": {
"alias02": {}
}
},
"filebeat-2018.02.28": {
"aliases": {
"alias02": {}
}
}
}

Please help.

Thanks

[tsullivan (Tim Sullivan)]

@amiyadutta

could you please let us know when this issue get resolved.

We won't be able to give updates in the forums. To be informed of when the issue will be resolved, please watch the issue in Github: Kibana Unable to set index pattern for Alias · Issue #16705 · elastic/kibana · GitHub. A Github issue can be subscribed to, and users can get notification emails when there are updates.