# Kibana : No default index pattern. You must select or create one to continue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/127080>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 6, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/127080 "2018-04-06T11:16:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![MARRAKCHI\_Tarik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@MARRAKCHI\_Tarik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MARRAKCHI_Tarik)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/127080/1 "2018-04-06T11:16:06Z")

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Hi, I am a beginner in elasticsearch, I installed elasticsearch 6.2.3 and kibana 6.2.3 on a single-node cluster (centos 6.9), I used hortonworks.

this is my elasticsearch :

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/c/8c6343b01c88bfa53a546332a1e0cf18d0918a90.jpg)

I want to connect my hive database with elasticsearch and just for testing I created 2 external table as follows :

> create external table test2 (str1 string, str2 string)  
> stored by 'org.elasticsearch.hadoop.hive.EsStorageHandler'  
> TBLPROPERTIES('es.resource' = 'test2/test2', 'es.index.read.missing.as.empty'='true');

> create external table test (str1 string, str2 string)  
> stored by 'org.elasticsearch.hadoop.hive.EsStorageHandler'  
> TBLPROPERTIES('es.resource' = 'test/test', 'es.index.read.missing.as.empty'='true');

And I inserted a row test in both of them like this :

> insert into table test values ('1','2');

> insert into table test2 values ('1','2');

Describtion of tables :

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/b/8baac1e0a7dc32ba77ee44e8cd1fac5f81d034d4.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/1/81d495024a22bc1ceb45513debf6ba25b0a37187.png)

check indices in elasticsearch :

192.168.4.101:9200/test

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/2/02b1fb1593acd643afeda8b29aad90fd9273ccef.png)

192.168.4.101:9200/test2

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/e/3ece6e2351c43307928916f95448744695929b0e.png)

until now everything is fine, but when I access the kibana interface to create my own dashboard, it tells me that **No default index pattern. You must select or create one to continue.**

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/c/0c2fcbf6edd099eccf43f338c11e7e27563ec414.png)

I want to inform you that I have not installed logstach because I do not need to do stats on log files I just installed elasticsearch and kibana and I also add jar files needed for connection with hive.

thank you for helping me please, maybe I have not yet understood the principle of elastic indices 😥

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/127080/2 "2018-04-06T22:23:19Z")

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Kibana just needs to know which indices you want to work with. So for the index pattern you can enter `test`, `test2`, or if you want to be able to work with the data in both indices at the same time, you can you a wildcard like `test*`.

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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:** [May 4, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/127080/3 "2018-05-04T22:23:26Z")

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