# Error when startingmetricbeat with v7.5.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-startingmetricbeat-with-v7-5-3/224491>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [March 20, 2020, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-startingmetricbeat-with-v7-5-3/224491 "2020-03-20T21:14:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-startingmetricbeat-with-v7-5-3/224491/5 "2020-03-24T16:11:10Z")

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Thanks. So the problem is that somehow there is a `metricbeat-7.5.3` index, whereas Metricbeat is expecting this to be an alias.

At this point, I'd suggest the following steps:

1. Stop all instances of Metricbeat 7.5.3.
2. Delete the `metricbeat-7.5.3` index as it doesn't have any documents in it:

```auto
DELETE metricbeat-7.5.3

```

3. Delete the Metricbeat 7.5.3 index template.

```auto
DELETE _template/metricbeat-7.5.3

```

4. Restart the stopped Metricbeat instances. This should recreate the template, the index alias, and the correct index.

Shaunak

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