# ERROR instance/beat.go:971 Exiting: resource 'filebeat-7.12.0' exists, but it is not an alias
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management, filebeat
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139 "2021-04-14T18:57:24Z")
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### Author:  [@thrak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thrak)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139/1 "2021-04-14T18:57:24Z")
Hello,
I am in the process of installing filebeats 7.12 on some elastic cluster nodes in my dev environment and when I run:
> sudo filebeat setup -e
On one of my nodes, I receive this error. ERROR instance/beat.go:971 Exiting: resource 'filebeat-7.12.0' exists, but it is not an alias
Before I ran this, I did a yum remove of filebeat, we were using an older version, and this is in our DEV environment and I just wanted a clean slate. I have done this on another node and had no issues. I followed some of the guidelines for the ILM setting such as:
> setup.ilm.enabled: true
> setup.ilm.overwrite: true
But that threw up a different error, so I commented out those lines in the filebeat.yml file.
We are hitting a Kibana 7.8 version, not sure if that is an issue or we have to upgrade Kibana first to 7.12.
Again, I ran this same setup on another node with no issues. So my guess is now that I have moved onto the next filebeat install on the next node it is trying to overwrite and can't.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139/2 "2021-04-15T08:14:53Z")
> [@thrak](#):
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> On one of my nodes, I receive this error. ERROR instance/beat.go:971 Exiting: resource 'filebeat-7.12.0' exists, but it is not an alias
Did you try to remove that indice from ES before installing new filebeat?
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### Author:  [@thrak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thrak)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139/3 "2021-04-15T12:04:07Z")
> [@mtojek](#):
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> ES b
Excuse my ignorance but how do I remove the indice from Elasticsearch? Thank you.
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### Author:  [@legoguy1000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/legoguy1000)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139/4 "2021-04-15T12:58:45Z")
U can do it from the index management page in kibana or use the api, [Delete index API | Elasticsearch Guide [7.12] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-delete-index.html)
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### Author:  [@thrak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thrak)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139/5 "2021-04-15T14:17:05Z")
Okay, thank you. I removed the indices. But now I am getting a completely different error.
> ERROR instance/beat.go:971 Exiting: 1 error: error loading index pattern: parsing kibana response: invalid character '\<' looking for beginning of value. Response: Elastic @font-face { font-... (truncated)
> Exiting: 1 error: error loading index pattern: parsing kibana response: invalid character '\<' looking for beginning of value. Response: Elastic @font-face { font-... (truncated)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-instance-beat-go-971-exiting-resource-filebeat-7-12-0-exists-but-it-is-not-an-alias/270139/6 "2021-05-13T16:17:42Z")
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