# Curator 5.5 ERROR Singleton action failed due to empty index lis
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 24, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883 "2018-08-24T10:09:44Z")
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### Author:  [@abkrim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abkrim)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883/1 "2018-08-24T10:09:44Z")
Hi.
I can not understand the operation in the curator 5.5 command line
```
# curator_cli --host kvm487 --port 9200 show_indices --verbose
.kibana open 50.4KB 10 1 1 2017-08-17T08:40:19Z
excellenting open 41.0GB 20504001 9 2 2017-10-18T09:57:32Z
```
I my repository for snaphost (made manually without Curator)
```
curator_cli --host kvm487 --port 9200 show_snapshots --repository excelle_backup
20180824085231
20180824085459
20180824085528
```
Try to run curator for make snapshot, and get error.
```
curator_cli --host kvm487 --port 9200 snapshot --repository excelle_backup --filter_list '[{"filtertype":"age", "source":"name", "direction":"older", "unit":"days", "unit_count":30, "timestring":"%Y.%m.%d"}]'
2018-08-24 12:04:21,010 ERROR Singleton action failed due to empty ind
ERROR Singleton action failed due to empty index list
```
I read several tutorials, but are for older versions, and no work with this version.
Best regards
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883/2 "2018-08-24T14:59:03Z")
> [@abkrim](#):
>
> 20180824085459
Your index names do not match the timestring in your age filter: `%Y.%m.%d`. This timestring would work if your index name was `2018.08.24`.
A viable timestring for your index names might be `%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
---
### Author:  [@abkrim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abkrim)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883/3 "2018-08-24T16:15:20Z")
> [@abkrim](#):
>
> curator\_cli --host kvm487 --port 9200 show\_snapshots --repository excelle\_backup
Well..
I delete old backups
```
curl -XGET 'kvm487:9200/_snapshot/excelle_backup/_all?pretty=true'
{
"snapshots" : []
}
```
But if I use Curator
```
# curator_cli --host kvm487 --port 9200 show_snapshots --repository excelle_backup
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/curator_cli", line 11, in
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/curator/curator_cli.py", line 8, in main
cli(obj={})
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/click/decorators.py", line 17, in new_func
return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/curator/cli_singletons/show.py", line 83, in show_snapshots
action.get_list_object()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/curator/cli_singletons/object_class.py", line 147, in get_list_object
self.list_object = SnapshotList(self.client, repository=self.repository)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/curator/snapshotlist.py", line 39, in __init__
self.__get_snapshots()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/curator/snapshotlist.py", line 81, in __get_snapshots
self.empty_list_check()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/curator/snapshotlist.py", line 97, in empty_list_check
raise exceptions.NoSnapshots('snapshot_list object is empty.')
curator.exceptions.NoSnapshots: snapshot_list object is empty.
```
And now try run command and fail
```
# curator_cli --host kvm487 --port 9200 snapshot --repository excelle_backup --filter_list '[{"filtertype":"age", "source":"name", "direction":"older", "unit":"days", "unit_count":30, "timestring":"%Y.%m.%d"}]'
2018-08-24 18:14:15,192 ERROR Singleton action failed due to empty index list
```
So, problem is no index name.
What is problem?
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883/4 "2018-08-24T17:57:31Z")
Again, your index names don’t match the timestring you provided, so there are no indices to snapshot. That’s what the log is telling you
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### Author:  [@abkrim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abkrim)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883/5 "2018-08-24T19:29:45Z")
Thanks. Very confused manual.
For create a snaphost, only need command below.
`curator_cli --host kvm487 --port 9200 snapshot --repository excelle_backup --filter_list '{"filtertype":"none"}'`
Now, I try to understand manual for create a new snapshot, and after delete olders snapshots than X days.
Best regards.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-5-error-singleton-action-failed-due-to-empty-index-lis/145883/6 "2018-09-21T19:29:46Z")
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