# FILEbeat index not showing in kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-not-showing-in-kibana/109966
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-not-showing-in-kibana/109966 "2017-12-01T17:16:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@dictus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dictus)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-not-showing-in-kibana/109966/1 "2017-12-01T17:16:49Z")
I have got this.
But not able to see in kibana. and only index is kibanas default one
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### Author:  [@dictus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dictus)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-not-showing-in-kibana/109966/2 "2017-12-01T17:19:00Z")
{ "filebeat" : { "order" : 1, "index\_patterns" : ["filebeat-_"], "settings" : { "index" : { "mapping" : { "total\_fields" : { "limit" : "10000" } }, "refresh\_interval" : "5s" } }, "mappings" : { "doc" : { "date\_detection" : false, "dynamic\_templates" : [{ "fields" : { "mapping" : { "type" : "keyword" }, "match\_mapping\_type" : "string", "path\_match" : "fields._" } }, { "docker.container.labels" : { "path\_match" : "docker.container.labels.\*", "mapping" : { "type" : "keyword" }, "match\_mapping\_type" : "string" } }, { "strings\_as\_keyword" : { "mapping" : { "ignore\_above" : 1024, "type" : "keyword" }, "match\_mapping\_type" : "string" } }], "properties" : { "system" : { "properties" : { "syslog" : { ..........
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-not-showing-in-kibana/109966/3 "2017-12-04T05:22:19Z")
I think we need some more details here. What are you trying to do? Which commands did you run? What are your versions? Can you share the filebeat config etc.
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### Author:  [@dictus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dictus)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-not-showing-in-kibana/109966/4 "2017-12-05T01:52:31Z")
Thanks ruflin. I hv already done the debug and its showing now.
1. Service was not started properly.
2.After service restart I have not restarted elasticsearch.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-not-showing-in-kibana/109966/5 "2018-01-02T01:52:33Z")
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