Kibana 7 can't load index pattern

[albgus (Albin Gustavsson)]

I had the same / a similar issue. It seems that Kibana sets the wrong type on the type field in it's index mapping. It sets it as text instead of keyword which I guess means that Elasticsearch will not reliably return exact matches when querying for Saved objects of a specific type.

Not possible to create Index patterns in Kibana

I have set fielddata=true on the type field of the ".kibana" index now, and now I do not get any error when if I query Saved Objects, and there is no Exception in the Elasticsearch logs anymore, so far so good. Although I can still not use any saved index patterns. Neither through Discover or even see them listed in Saved Objects. I can find the created index pattern object if I query Elasticsearch directly though.. UPDATE: Problem solved! I did another attempt and instead of setting fieldda…