# Kibana cannot create index pattern **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [December 11, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001 "2017-12-11T04:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Terry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/1 "2017-12-11T04:39:59Z")
After deleting all indexes using curl -XDELETE [http://localhost:9200/\_all](http://localhost:9200/_all) I tried to create index pattern again but when I clicked the create button, it didn't response and no index was created. How to fix this problem? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 4:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/2 "2017-12-11T04:41:40Z")
Index patterns do not create indices, you need to do that in Elasticsearch before Kibana can read them. ---
**Author:** ![Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Terry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/3 "2017-12-11T07:00:41Z")
![indexpattern](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/0/50622c3d936da4f09bc529a9ff298d5b41bc94e0.PNG) I found that there are still indices in elasticsearch. Are these indices constantly generated by elasticsearch from the logs sent from the beat agents? However, when I clicked the create button, it stay the same with no index pattern created. Also I found that there are many .hprof files taking a lot of disk space. C:\Program Files\Elasticsearch\bin\java\_pidXXXX.hprof What are the files for? Can I delete them? Where are the indices stored? If I turn on all the beat agents on the logging machines to send logs to the ELK server, the log received will grow continuously. What the house keeping work to do? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/4 "2017-12-11T07:16:18Z")
> [@Terry](#): > > Are these indices constantly generated by elasticsearch from the logs sent from the beat agents? Yes. > [@Terry](#): > > However, when I clicked the create button, it stay the same with no index pattern created. Check with `_cat/indices` please 🙂 > [@Terry](#): > > Also I found that there are many .hprof files taking a lot of disk space. > > C:\Program Files\Elasticsearch\bin\java\_pidXXXX.hprof > > What are the files for? Can I delete them? They are JVM heap dumps, which are not good. You may want to check your logs. > [@Terry](#): > > Where are the indices stored? On the local disk. Check out [Elasticsearch Curator](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/curator/current/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Terry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/5 "2017-12-11T07:45:47Z")
![indexerror](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/6/068f69091ba476ff3d63165237fa18f69991d1fd.PNG) Can you see any thing wrong? I can't find the index files? Are they .json files inside the logstash or elasticsearch folder? What is the exact path? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/6 "2017-12-11T08:12:43Z")
I'm a little lost, what problem are you trying to solve here? ---
**Author:** ![Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Terry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/7 "2017-12-13T02:35:33Z")
I tried to add index pattern by command with the following errors. How to fix it? C:\Script\>curl -XPUT [http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/filebeat-\*](http://127.0.0.1:9200/.kibana/index-pattern/filebeat-*) -d ' {"title" : "filebeat-_", "timeFieldName": "@timestamp"}' {"error":"Content-Type header [application/x-www-form-urlencoded] is not support ed","status":406}curl: (7) Failed to connect to port 80: Connection refused curl: (6) Could not resolve host: filebeat-_, curl: (6) Could not resolve host: timeFieldName curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 11 ---
**Author:** ![Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Terry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/8 "2017-12-13T04:15:39Z")
I would like to know what is serving the web page? Why port 80 cannot be connected in this case? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/9 "2017-12-13T21:41:35Z")
It's probably easier if you do it via the Kibana UI. ---
**Author:** ![Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Terry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/10 "2017-12-14T02:25:15Z")
But Kibana UI does not response. What wrong with it? ---
**Author:** ![Terry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Terry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/11 "2017-12-18T04:36:47Z")
> I am not sure how to do the following. Can provide a more detailed guide of how to execute the command? 1.Create a .kibana-6.1 index based on your existing mappings, but make sure type looks like: "type": { "type": "keyword" }, 2.Reindex from .kibana-6 into .kibana-6.1: POST \_reindex { "source": { "index": ".kibana-6" }, "dest": { "index": ".kibana-6.1" } } 3.Realias POST /\_aliases { "actions" : [ { "add": { "index": ".kibana-6.1", "alias": ".kibana" } }, ] } ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-create-index-pattern/111001/12 "2018-01-15T04:36:48Z")
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