# Issue with "ignore\_missing" argument in es5

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-ignore-missing-argument-in-es5/139896>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 13, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-ignore-missing-argument-in-es5/139896 "2018-07-13T07:42:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![xenoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xenoid/32/20672_2.png) [@xenoid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xenoid)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-ignore-missing-argument-in-es5/139896/1 "2018-07-13T07:42:17Z")

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I am using an application that sends requests like this to elasticsearch 5 ([Kibana 3](https://github.com/immunochomik/kibana3)):  
`http://localhost:9200/twitter/_aliases?ignore_unavailable=true&ignore_missing=true`

The response from es5:  
`{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"request [/twitter/_aliases] contains unrecognized parameter: [ignore_missing]"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"request [/twitter/_aliases] contains unrecognized parameter: [ignore_missing]"},"status":400}`

When sent to an es2 instance, the response is valid.

I already stumbled upon a few GitHub issues and found that this troublemaking option (ignore\_missing) was removed a long time ago but since then ignored.  
[GitHub: ignore\_missing removed from \_aliases](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/7793)  
[GitHub: Revisit indices options and make default values consistent](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/9438)

All I need to know now if es5 purposely responds with an error or if I'm doing something wrong. 🤖

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-ignore-missing-argument-in-es5/139896/2 "2018-07-13T08:01:39Z")

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You need to use Kibana 5 with Elasticsearch 5. And the project you referred to says that it's abandoned for now.

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**Author:** ![xenoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xenoid/32/20672_2.png) [@xenoid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xenoid)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-ignore-missing-argument-in-es5/139896/3 "2018-07-13T09:41:44Z")

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Thank you for your answer 🙂

Yep, that's right, but my question isn't really about Kibana 3 but more about the seemingly malformed query it sets off.

Sadly Kibana 5 is not usable for us at the moment as it is really limited by its design.

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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:** [August 10, 2018, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-ignore-missing-argument-in-es5/139896/4 "2018-08-10T09:41:47Z")

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