# Kibana Stack Monitoring Default Index?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-default-index/273072
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [May 14, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-default-index/273072 "2021-05-14T23:24:05Z")
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### Author: ![kodka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@kodka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kodka)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-default-index/273072/1 "2021-05-14T23:24:05Z")

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I'm trying to replace legacy collector with Metricbeat elasticsearch-xpack module.

I want to give the index, where data will be stored, a specific name, because it will be used with lifecycle management, but now Kibana Stack Monitoring is showing "No monitoring data found", even if the name is .monitoring-001-002 or .monitoring-es-001 (matching default pattern .monitoring-\*), seems like Kibana is searching for something specific as index name, but i can't figure out what.

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### 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: [May 17, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-default-index/273072/2 "2021-05-17T13:41:18Z")

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The index pattern it's looking for is:  
`.monitoring-es-7-mb-*`

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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: [June 14, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-stack-monitoring-default-index/273072/3 "2021-06-14T13:41:50Z")

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