# Elasticsearch auto creating index after startup without any documents **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 9, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691 "2018-01-09T10:57:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shubham\_Mahajan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shubham_mahajan/32/22140_2.png) [@Shubham\_Mahajan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubham_Mahajan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691/1 "2018-01-09T10:57:51Z")
Hi team, I am facing the below issue whenever i start my elasticsearch server. it automatically creates an index and then throws below exceptions. Please provide your insight. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/1/01ac231bae967abca1a0fcbdce4b3c722203028a.png) ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691/2 "2018-01-09T15:01:27Z")
Please don't post images of text as they are hardly readable and not searchable. Instead paste the text and format it with `` icon. Check the preview window. Please update your post. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691/3 "2018-01-09T15:03:31Z")
Something related to `collectd` is creating this index. ---
**Author:** ![Shubham\_Mahajan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shubham_mahajan/32/22140_2.png) [@Shubham\_Mahajan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubham_Mahajan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691/4 "2018-01-09T15:15:18Z")
Actually i reindexed some data a few days back in an index of same name.. but today i am using new elasticsearch and kibana in my local..from new directory itself.. but it’s creating index automatically after few minutes..even when i delete that index it again creates it!!! ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691/5 "2018-01-09T15:34:04Z")
As I said. A process somewhere is running and is sending data to your machine which seems to be opened or this process is running locally on your machine. ---
**Author:** ![Shubham\_Mahajan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shubham_mahajan/32/22140_2.png) [@Shubham\_Mahajan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubham_Mahajan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691/6 "2018-01-09T16:15:15Z")
Will try that David, thanks for the reply!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-auto-creating-index-after-startup-without-any-documents/114691/7 "2018-02-06T16:28:31Z")
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