HELP! Unable to fetch mapping. Do you have indices matching the pattern?

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So, I was able to get data into ELK with Packetbeat - using the following steps:

  1. Manually load the index.
  2. Import the Packetbeat dashboards (using the script)
  3. Configuring the packetbeat.yml as such:

output.elasticsearch:

Array of hosts to connect to.

hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
template.name: "packetbeat"
template.path: "packetbeat.template.json"
template.overwrite: true

output.logstash:

The Logstash hosts

hosts: ["localhost:5044"]

Data - yay! :slight_smile:

So, I tried to follow the same process (above) with metricbeat... results:
a) the dashboards deploy
b) the metricbeat-* index shows in the Index Patterns, but I still get the errpr: No matching indices found: No indices match pattern "metricbeat-*"

I feel like I'm missing a step to close the deal - what am I missing?

Thanks,
Brad