# Cannot get dashboard/visualizations to load **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-dashboard-visualizations-to-load/155434 **Category:** Kibana **Created:** [November 5, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-dashboard-visualizations-to-load/155434 "2018-11-05T16:50:07Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![Aaron\_Caldwell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron_caldwell/32/45755_2.png) [@Aaron\_Caldwell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aaron_Caldwell) #### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-dashboard-visualizations-to-load/155434/2 "2018-11-05T17:06:17Z")
Hello Nathan, Assuming you've created the index-pattern, that is a strange error. I'm not sure which version of ES you're running, but I did come across an issue which resulted in a bug report here: > [@Frustrating error: Could not locate that index-pattern (id: false), click here to re-create it](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/frustrating-error-could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-id-false-click-here-to-re-create-it/141911/8): > > Managed to reproduce the issue locally, thanks for following up. Will investigate to see what the root cause of it and create an issue for it. If your version is different or the details there don't quite sync up, I also came across this thread which identifies some good debugging steps: > [@Dashboard error: Could not locate that index-pattern although it exists](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-error-could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-although-it-exists/112876): > > Running ES 6.0 with Kibana and Metricbeat of the same version I'm getting Could not locate that index-pattern (id: metricbeat-\*), click here to re-create it in the Metricbeat Host dashboard. This only happens for the Number of processes visualization, the rest shows up fine. Editing this vis I can see this message and search: There is a problem with this saved object The index pattern associated with this object no longer exists. If you know what this error means, go ahead and fix it — otherw… Regards, Aaron --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-dashboard-visualizations-to-load/155434)._