# How appeared the indexes that I not added

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 22, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703 "2017-05-22T16:03:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![yapro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/97f17d/32.png) [@yapro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yapro)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703/1 "2017-05-22T16:03:16Z")

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How appeared the indexes that I not added - curl 'localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?v'  
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.monitoring-es-\*  
.watcher-history-\*  
.monitoring-kibana-\*  
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703/2 "2017-05-22T16:03:57Z")

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These are internal indices created by X-Pack.

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**Author:** ![yapro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/97f17d/32.png) [@yapro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yapro)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703/3 "2017-05-22T16:08:02Z")

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For what I need it and how I can discovering they in Kibana?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703/4 "2017-05-22T16:11:45Z")

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The`.monitoring-`\* indices contain monitoring data and this data is made available through the Monitoring UI, so you should not need to (even though it is possible) to create Kibana dashboards for it. If you want to look at them in Kibana, just create an index pattern in the management section and then go to the Discover tab.

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**Author:** ![yapro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/97f17d/32.png) [@yapro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yapro)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703/5 "2017-05-22T16:28:54Z")

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Can you describe this logs

.monitoring-es-\*  
.watcher-history-\*  
.monitoring-kibana-\*

or where I can read detail information about this files and how I can disable collecting this logs.

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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:** [June 19, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-appeared-the-indexes-that-i-not-added/86703/6 "2017-06-19T16:28:56Z")

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