Kibana dashboard - fails to show index pattern available

[rajendar (Raj)]

Hi,
I am using EFK stack . My data is pushed by fluentd to ES and i could verify the
index being created @ ES by url http://ES:9200/_cat/indices.
My queries are
(i) Do we need to initialize or create index pattern @ kibana dashboard during first time.,
Although the index being available @ES? How we can automate by preventing the user to create index pattern @ kibana UI ?

Inorder to automate
(ii) I set the default index by command line (CURL) and also on the configuration file
Kibana.yaml ( index name, discover) , but still when i access Kibana UI, it prompts for creating the index pattern.

After i "create" all the index patterns through kibana UI ( each index pattern created once through the "mangement" tab), i can able to repeat the step II and then i able to view kibana dashboard without prompting for index pattern and isolating the other indexes.

Kindly suggest for automation of viewing the index through kibana UI.

thanks,
RK

[Nathan_Reese]

Kibana does not auto discover the indices from your Elasticsearch cluster. Index patterns must be configured in Kibana to be usable. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/tutorial-define-index.html for more details

[rajendar (Raj)]

Hi,
Thanks for your mail.
Is there anyway b which i can add the index by command line, similar to the way of adding through kibana UI (index-pattern, create)?
I tried by command line, although it create index @ES, but unable to view @kibana UI. Also i would like to know is there any difference in parameter passed by kibana which i fails by sending by command line?
I pass the parameters (command line) for creating index as (title, timefiledname) but kibana requires
(indexPattern, { timeFieldName, intervalName, notExpandable) ?

Kindly suggest.

thanks n regards,
RK