# Indexes are not visible in Kiabana even though ES have

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214 "2019-04-17T07:30:07Z")
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### Author: ![jagadeeshkoka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jagadeeshkoka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagadeeshkoka)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214/1 "2019-04-17T07:30:07Z")

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I am unable to see or create index pattern for the ES indexes, as Kiabana says no Data from Elastic Search.

but when I run `http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?pretty`  
I can see below indexes in `ES`

```
green open .kibana_task_manager XcFsDnpdTYK90KVNB-fv6w 1 0 2 0 46.2kb 46.2kb
green open .kibana_1 vn74gzb6TKSUkCpaD4gFkw 1 0 614 6 32.8kb 332.8kb
yellow open logstash-2019.04.17-000001 w5TF7NmFQ4yh8aeJ2NZulA 1 1 0 0 283b 283b

```

my logstash config file is as below

```
 input {
 beats { port => 5400}
     }
  output {
    elasticsearch {
        hosts => ["http://localhost:9200"]
         }
    stdout { codec => rubydebug }   
  }

```

I want to create `logstash` index in `Kibana` but I cant

Please help, I have been struggling for the past week, and I am using `ELK 7.0`

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### Author: ![sebastien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sebastien/32/36119_2.png) [@sebastien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sebastien)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214/2 "2019-04-17T08:52:39Z")

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Hello,

Can you try to create a dummy index on your es instance (`PUT /dummy-index`) and see if you can create an index pattern from it in Kibana?

Cheers

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### Author: ![jagadeeshkoka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jagadeeshkoka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagadeeshkoka)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214/3 "2019-04-17T08:56:49Z")

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hi,

Yes I was able to create dummy indexes, and then able to see in Kiabna only if I put some dummy `doc` in the index. so I am guessing my logstash index doesnt have `doc.count=0` do you think thats the reason ?

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### Author: ![jagadeeshkoka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@jagadeeshkoka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jagadeeshkoka)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214/4 "2019-04-17T08:59:19Z")

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Hello @sebastien,

Its problem with my `Filebeat` pointing to wrong port of `logstash` but its not having docs in it thats reason.

My bad, its stupid mistake.

thanks for the reply

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### Author: ![sebastien](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sebastien/32/36119_2.png) [@sebastien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sebastien)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214/5 "2019-04-17T09:34:32Z")

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Great, happy to help 🙂

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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: [May 15, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexes-are-not-visible-in-kiabana-even-though-es-have/177214/6 "2019-05-15T09:34:38Z")

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