# Can't access index

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-index/247253
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-index/247253 "2020-09-02T15:01:28Z")
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### Author: ![headtea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/headtea/32/24271_2.png) [@headtea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/headtea)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-index/247253/1 "2020-09-02T15:01:28Z")

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I can't seem to access my `filebeat-*` index. I gets [this message](https://i.imgur.com/guZnn1L.png) which once expanded says:

```
      "type": "illegal_argument_exception",
      "reason": "Field [Date] of type [keyword] does not support custom formats" i

```

[This is what I see in my index pattern for filebeat](https://i.imgur.com/RzStEse.png) and [this is the settings for the `Date` field](https://i.imgur.com/m28ZWgb.png). I tried refreshing the index but it still doesn't work.

Does anyone know what's going on? Is it possible to fix?

Thanks ahead.

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### Author: ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-index/247253/2 "2020-09-02T15:18:37Z")

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I guess you have 2 differents indexes, each one have a specific type for field Date

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/5/25f2088ce9aa660048fc839ea56b342b7e14de79.png)

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### Author: ![headtea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/headtea/32/24271_2.png) [@headtea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/headtea)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-index/247253/3 "2020-09-02T15:43:35Z")

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Thanks for the response,

Do you happen to know how to fix this? As in how to change it? I'm just not sure.

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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: [September 30, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-access-index/247253/4 "2020-09-30T15:43:40Z")

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