Cannot find write index

Welcome!

Please read this about how to format.

You need to use the update settings API and not the create index if your index already exists I guess.

PUT /cedar-00001/_settings
{
  "aliases" : {
    "cedar_log" : {
      "is_write_index": true
    }
  }
}

But I don't know if this is what you really want to do...