# Dashboard error: Could not locate that index-pattern although it exists

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-error-could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-although-it-exists/112876
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-error-could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-although-it-exists/112876 "2017-12-21T18:26:51Z")
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### Author: ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-error-could-not-locate-that-index-pattern-although-it-exists/112876/15 "2019-10-14T13:26:16Z")

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Just to add a note to this, you need to make sure that during `setup` the Beat you are running can access Kibana. Beats, let's use `metricbeat` for example, will have to POST to Kibana API the index-pattern with `_id`= `metricbeat-*` so as the pre-built visualizations and dashboards to be valid.

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