# Kibana Discover not working as expected **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 25, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101 "2021-01-25T12:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rubans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rubans/32/83807_2.png) [@rubans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rubans)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101/1 "2021-01-25T12:02:58Z")
I have setup a Kibana and ElasticSearch on my own GKE cluster. Following the guide -\> [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-elasticsearch-fluentd-and-kibana-efk-logging-stack-on-kubernetes](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-elasticsearch-fluentd-and-kibana-efk-logging-stack-on-kubernetes) However, after I created my own index pattern "logtash-\*", I click on Discover, it doesn't seem to work. I still get the following error: "In order to visualize and explore data in Kibana, you'll need to create an index pattern to retrieve data from Elasticsearch." 1. ElasticSearch index created: ![Screenshot 2021-01-25 115925](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/1/5143e85ab5c3d4749ad69516701d9fe54c06d28c.png) 2. Kibana index is still empty though: ![Screenshot 2021-01-25 120010](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/e/eebf730e2eb9d5b540038c59c1009abf8bbc5c0a.png) 3. When I click on Discover, Kibana still complains no index setup: ![Screenshot 2021-01-25 120028](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/f/bf280460c8d85f54e2f2a04d57220874a407c5ba.png) Not sure what the issue is ? Can you assist pls? ---
**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101/2 "2021-01-25T13:35:12Z")
To verify, can you follow the steps for [creating an index pattern](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/index-patterns.html#settings-create-pattern) and let us know the results. It starts with the blue `Create index pattern` button on the 2nd screenshot. ---
**Author:** ![rubans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rubans/32/83807_2.png) [@rubans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rubans)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101/3 "2021-01-25T15:15:33Z")
Hi Aaron, I just deleted the kibana related statefulsets and redeployed, it started working. Was a little strange but I can now see data in Discover. ---
**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101/4 "2021-01-27T09:58:12Z")
dear @rubans quick questions, when you experienced the problem, you created the index pattern in UI, right? did you switch to Discover immediately, or did you have a look at the index patterns list before? was the index pattern then in the list? Many thx Matthias ---
**Author:** ![rubans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rubans/32/83807_2.png) [@rubans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rubans)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101/5 "2021-02-11T23:44:36Z")
Hi Matw, I retried multiple times in the UI and didn't see the change in Discover. Even after multiple refreshes. So in the end had to drop both deployments and start again. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101/6 "2021-03-11T23:44:41Z")
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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-not-working-as-expected/262101/7 "2021-04-21T14:44:33Z")
hi @rubans Is there a proxy involved in your setup ? Thx & Best Matthias