# Index shown in CAT api but cannot query it

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-shown-in-cat-api-but-cannot-query-it/147927>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 10, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-shown-in-cat-api-but-cannot-query-it/147927 "2018-09-10T09:21:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![weiishann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@weiishann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weiishann)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-shown-in-cat-api-but-cannot-query-it/147927/1 "2018-09-10T09:21:11Z")

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Hi all!

The CAT api of Elasticsearch will show the index to be GREEN and OPEN. However, any attempt to work on the index directly like DELETE or QUERY API will cause index\_not\_found\_exception error.

There's one thing I noted though, there is a weird red dot at the end of the problematic index. ( as shown in the attached photo).

 ![23](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/4/94c5b98bf9321f483d943135eeb55bd47f1ae445.png)

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-shown-in-cat-api-but-cannot-query-it/147927/2 "2018-09-10T18:44:05Z")

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Can you show the output of the CAT query? Also, the output of the `/_alias` may be helpful, feel free to limit the output you share to just that index... I'm just curious of the index itself has that trailing `.` or not.

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**Author:** ![weiishann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@weiishann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weiishann)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-shown-in-cat-api-but-cannot-query-it/147927/3 "2018-09-11T02:43:57Z")

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Hi @Joe_Fleming,

Thanks for the prompt response!

Attached is the picture of the CAT query. The index does not have a trailing dot at the end.

 ![10](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/a/3aa7e13681e9261d2c7ff3a973f97ced050050be.png)

There isn't any alias being created at all. (As shown in the screenshot)

 ![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/0/0091c72b2baa42961a5d9eea12593dadfabc0f5c.png)

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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:** [October 9, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-shown-in-cat-api-but-cannot-query-it/147927/4 "2018-10-09T02:43:59Z")

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