# Create metricbeat index pattern failed - index patterns are missing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-metricbeat-index-pattern-failed-index-patterns-are-missing/108006>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [November 16, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-metricbeat-index-pattern-failed-index-patterns-are-missing/108006 "2017-11-16T19:41:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![geneliu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/geneliu/32/24351_2.png) [@geneliu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/geneliu)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-metricbeat-index-pattern-failed-index-patterns-are-missing/108006/1 "2017-11-16T19:41:48Z")

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Version: ELK6.0  
metricbeat.json of index-pattern from [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-6.0.0.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/beats-dashboards/beats-dashboards-6.0.0.zip)

Command:  
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -XPUT '[http://192.168.222.7:9200/\_template/metricbeat-\*](http://192.168.222.7:9200/_template/metricbeat-*)' -d@/path/to/metricbeat.json

Error:  
{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"action\_request\_validation\_exception","reason":"Validation Failed: 1: index patterns are missing;"}],"type":"action\_request\_validation\_exception","reason":"Validation Failed: 1: index patterns are missing;"},"status":400}

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-metricbeat-index-pattern-failed-index-patterns-are-missing/108006/2 "2017-11-16T23:29:29Z")

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I think you are mixing here two things. What you have in the beats-dashboards repo is the index patterns for Kibana. The index template for Elasticsearch is now loaded by Metricbeat automatically and is generated out of the fields.yml which is shipped with Metricbeat.

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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:** [December 14, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-metricbeat-index-pattern-failed-index-patterns-are-missing/108006/3 "2017-12-14T23:29:50Z")

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