# Filebeat index exists but Dashboard says no

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-exists-but-dashboard-says-no/221468
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-exists-but-dashboard-says-no/221468 "2020-02-28T17:26:36Z")
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### Author: ![gungazoo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gungazoo/32/19972_2.png) [@gungazoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gungazoo)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-exists-but-dashboard-says-no/221468/1 "2020-02-28T17:26:36Z")

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I have a fresh install of Elasticsearch and Kibana on the same box. They are version 7.5.2.

I have a filebeat-\* index and when I go to that index I see my logs. However, when I go to any of the default filebeat dashboards it says:

```auto
Could not locate that index-pattern (id: filebeat-*), [click here to re-create it](#/management/kibana/index_pattern)

```

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Peter

 ![filebeat-index](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/6/f6fefe8cfd6ea63a9de3bb045757c0f446eb65e1.png)

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### Author: ![cheiligers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheiligers/32/73114_2.png) [@cheiligers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheiligers)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-exists-but-dashboard-says-no/221468/2 "2020-02-28T18:17:39Z")

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Hi @gungazoo! I'm not sure how you're seeing your logs for `filebeat-*`, are you viewing them in Discover? If so, it's indeed strange that nothing displays in Dashboard. Are you able to view your logstash docs in Dashboard?

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### Author: ![gungazoo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gungazoo/32/19972_2.png) [@gungazoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gungazoo)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-exists-but-dashboard-says-no/221468/3 "2020-02-28T21:43:59Z")

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Sorry, I should have put that. Yes -- I'm seeing them in Discover.

Thanks for the help @cheiligers

I haven't tried to make any dashboards for Logstash yet. The default dashboards that include the name Logstash are still based on the filebeat index.

I just looked at a metricbeat dashboard and some of the panels show up and some don't. And, FWIW, I tried deleting the index-pattern and re-creating it.

 ![metricbeat-dash](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/c/7c0d411a30ecf43056fac68ee94184fb87834938.png)

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### Author: ![gungazoo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gungazoo/32/19972_2.png) [@gungazoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gungazoo)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-exists-but-dashboard-says-no/221468/4 "2020-03-03T14:39:09Z")

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Anyone have any thoughts?

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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: [March 31, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-exists-but-dashboard-says-no/221468/5 "2020-03-31T14:39:14Z")

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