# Error Elastic Stack Logging lab 3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-elastic-stack-logging-lab-3/88102>\
**Category:** Elastic Training\
**Created:** [June 2, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-elastic-stack-logging-lab-3/88102 "2017-06-02T14:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rtelman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rtelman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rtelman)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-elastic-stack-logging-lab-3/88102/1 "2017-06-02T14:35:00Z")

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Hi,

I'm following the Elastic Stack Logging course and ran into an issue in lab 3. I configured TOPbeat as instructed and downloaded the Dashboard. Logging into Kibana I received the following error:  
No matching indices found: [index\_not\_found\_exception] no such index, with { resource.type="index\_or\_alias" & resource.id="filebeat-" & index\_uuid="na" & index="filebeat-" }

Going to the Index Patterns the screen doesn't show anything and just shows a white screen.

Looking at the response after loading the dashboards I noticed the following:  
{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"index\_already\_exists\_exception","reason":"index [.kibana/VDqOpy5oQoWwkk7fgTnW3w] already exists","index\_uuid":"VDqOpy5oQoWwkk7fgTnW3w","index":".kibana"}],"type":"index\_already\_exists\_exception","reason":"index [.kibana/VDqOpy5oQoWwkk7fgTnW3w] already exists","index\_uuid":"VDqOpy5oQoWwkk7fgTnW3w","index":".kibana"},"status":400}{"acknowledged":true}Loading search Cache-transactions

Does anybody have any idea what could be the cause (or causes) of these issues?

Kind regards,

Ruud

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**Author:** ![pmusa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pmusa/32/3498_2.png) [@pmusa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmusa)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-elastic-stack-logging-lab-3/88102/2 "2017-06-02T15:53:16Z")

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Moving to the training forum.

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**Author:** ![raposa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raposa/32/11906_2.png) [@raposa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raposa)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-elastic-stack-logging-lab-3/88102/3 "2017-06-03T01:04:08Z")

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Try deleting the Kibana index first, then retry loading the dashboards:

```auto
DELETE .kibana

```

That should fix your `.kibana index_already_exists_exception`

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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:** [July 1, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-elastic-stack-logging-lab-3/88102/4 "2017-07-01T01:04:19Z")

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