# Create logstash index pattern failed?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-logstash-index-pattern-failed/72954
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 26, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-logstash-index-pattern-failed/72954 "2017-01-26T21:31:04Z")
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### Author: ![robertchen117](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@robertchen117](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robertchen117)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-logstash-index-pattern-failed/72954/1 "2017-01-26T21:31:04Z")

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root# curl -XPUT [http://localhost:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/logstash-\*](http://localhost:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/logstash-*) -d '{"title" : "logstash-\*", "timeFieldName": "@timestamp"}'

{"\_index":".kibana","\_type":"index-pattern","\_id":"logstash-\*","\_version":2,"\_shards":{"total":2,"successful":1,"failed":0},"created":false}

Please let me know why create: false

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-logstash-index-pattern-failed/72954/2 "2017-01-26T21:31:48Z")

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Because it already exists, hence the `"version":2`.

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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: [February 23, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-logstash-index-pattern-failed/72954/3 "2017-02-23T21:31:51Z")

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