# Kibana does not detect elasticsearch indices

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-detect-elasticsearch-indices/103196
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 9, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-detect-elasticsearch-indices/103196 "2017-10-09T09:06:52Z")
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### Author: ![PDS42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@PDS42](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PDS42)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-detect-elasticsearch-indices/103196/1 "2017-10-09T09:06:52Z")

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Hello. Just getting started with ES / Kibana. I configured them with official docker images, and they are both up and running.

When I try to visualize my Elasticsearch data in Kibana though, I get the following message when trying to configure an index pattern:

 ![53 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/0/00820963b8e9f51d2491d1d0a25ba674fd9a3066.png)

I actually have two indices in elasticsearch called **stocks** and **stocks2** , but as you can see, Kibana detects none.

Here are my indices (oddly detected in the _monitoring_ part):

 ![08 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/7/4728a57998049723916b5078d9cfec2acd9df704.png)

And in command line to make sure they are present in elasticsearch:

 ![32 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/9/f9354d91fc14b11843985413fff7919b6eec0f19.png)

As you can see, those indices actually **exist** in elasticsearch, and they are NOT empty.

The only difference I see with most people is that I'm not using Logstash, is it **required** to run kibana with ES ? If not, can anyone help me solve this?

Thanks for reading!

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### Author: ![PDS42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c67d28/32.png) [@PDS42](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PDS42)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-detect-elasticsearch-indices/103196/2 "2017-10-09T10:25:10Z")

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Okay I fixed this by myself: after querying my indice data in the dev section, I saw that I didn't have rights with the "kibana" default user.

I tried to log with the "elastic" user (same as elasticsearch) and it solved it.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-detect-elasticsearch-indices/103196/3 "2017-11-06T10:25:42Z")

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