# Kibana Discover page doesn't show the data after updating the index pattern

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-page-doesnt-show-the-data-after-updating-the-index-pattern/216717>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 27, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-page-doesnt-show-the-data-after-updating-the-index-pattern/216717 "2020-01-27T19:25:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![EZprogramming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ezprogramming/32/57291_2.png) [@EZprogramming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EZprogramming)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-page-doesnt-show-the-data-after-updating-the-index-pattern/216717/1 "2020-01-27T19:25:38Z")

</div>

**Issue:**

- Updating the index pattern to include the new fields from other indices doesn't now show their data on Kibana discover page.

**Steps to replicate:**

- index `error-codes-test` vs Index `error-codes-final` have slightly different fields.
- I have an index pattern called `error-codes*` to show the output from both indexes, but it doesn't.
- Then I decide to view the data from both indices using the `error-codes*` index pattern in Kibana discover page, but the data doesn't show up from `error-codes-test`.

**Current solution:**

- I have to create another index pattern, for example,`error-*` to be able to see all the data. I highly believe this behavior is not desired, and updating the old index pattern `error-codes*` should have fixed the problem.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-page-doesnt-show-the-data-after-updating-the-index-pattern/216717/2 "2020-01-28T13:44:12Z")

</div>

Usually field are taken from the indices at index pattern creation and when the index pattern cache is invalided (which is pretty rare) [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6498](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6498)

The solution for you, other than creating a new index pattern is to refresh the index pattern that you already have, from the Management - Index Patterns page.  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/d/dd8cc24aa1e4c0b250ee1107945afb4afb2e6575.png)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![EZprogramming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ezprogramming/32/57291_2.png) [@EZprogramming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EZprogramming)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-page-doesnt-show-the-data-after-updating-the-index-pattern/216717/3 "2020-01-28T18:52:12Z")

</div>

@Marius_Dragomir Thanks for your suggestion, but I forgot to mention that I have tried that solution as well, so as a result I will get the fields of both indices into one index pattern, but in the Kibana discover page the data doesn't show up from both indices only one of them.

I believe the problem might be the initial timestamp that is chosen for the index pattern. One of the indices has the field, event\_time\_utc as the timestamp and another has event\_date as the timestamp, so I think choosing one over another results in the data to disappear.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-page-doesnt-show-the-data-after-updating-the-index-pattern/216717/4 "2020-01-29T10:52:46Z")

</div>

It will indeed. You should have both of them using the same field as the timestamp.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-discover-page-doesnt-show-the-data-after-updating-the-index-pattern/216717/5 "2020-02-26T10:54:27Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.