# Index not found exception when getting template
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-getting-template/75063
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-getting-template/75063 "2017-02-14T15:05:12Z")
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### Author:  [@jason26](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jason26)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-getting-template/75063/1 "2017-02-14T15:05:12Z")
I'm running into an issue where a request like "curl [http://elasticsearch:9200/\_template/logstash](http://elasticsearch:9200/_template/logstash)" is returning the following response body:
```
{"error":{"index":"","index_uuid":"_na_","reason":"no such index","resource.id":"","resource.type":"index_expression","root_cause":[{"index":"","index_uuid":"_na_","reason":"no such index","resource.id":"","resource.type":"index_expression","type":"index_not_found_exception"}],"type":"index_not_found_exception"},"status":404}
```
Can anyone tell me why this would happen? The requested template does exist, and this error does appear to be a bit random when it happens. Sometimes the template is fetched, other times its not.
I compared it to the error return when fetching a template that does not exist, and that returns an empty body, not the above.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@tanguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanguy)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-getting-template/75063/2 "2017-02-14T15:30:19Z")
Hi,
Can you please share the Elasticsearch logs when such error happens? Thanks
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### Author:  [@jason26](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jason26)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-getting-template/75063/3 "2017-02-14T16:31:47Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-not-found-exception-when-getting-template/75063/4 "2017-03-14T16:31:48Z")
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