# Logstash-active index fails to create due to duplicate indexes that don't exist
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-active-index-fails-to-create-due-to-duplicate-indexes-that-dont-exist/192862
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 30, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-active-index-fails-to-create-due-to-duplicate-indexes-that-dont-exist/192862 "2019-07-30T09:44:18Z")
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### Author:  [@cdloh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cdloh)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-active-index-fails-to-create-due-to-duplicate-indexes-that-dont-exist/192862/1 "2019-07-30T09:44:18Z")
I'm having trouble with logstash outputting to elasticsearch and it creating it's logstash index
```auto
[2019-07-30T10:41:54,893][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 500 ({"type"=>"illegal_state_exception", "reason"=>"index and alias names need to be unique, but the following duplicates were found [logstash-active (alias of [logstash-active/7DjBrHMiQIeE2Im2er5juQ])]"})
[2019-07-30T10:41:54,894][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 500 ({"type"=>"illegal_state_exception", "reason"=>"index and alias names need to be unique, but the following duplicates were found [logstash-active (alias of [logstash-active/7DjBrHMiQIeE2Im2er5juQ])]"})
[2019-07-30T10:41:54,894][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual bulk actions that failed or were rejected by the previous bulk request. {:count=>2}
[2019-07-30T10:41:58,442][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 500 ({"type"=>"illegal_state_exception", "reason"=>"index and alias names need to be unique, but the following duplicates were found [logstash-active (alias of [logstash-active/rDsm0xmTQj-3JzUPDej87A])]"})
[2019-07-30T10:41:58,442][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual bulk actions that failed or were rejected by the previous bulk request. {:count=>1}
```
For the life of me I can't get it to create that index. I've double checked and that index doesn't exist at all or an alias like it so I can't tell where this is getting confused. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
```auto
/_cat/aliases
.kibana .kibana_2 - - -
.security .security-6 - - -
/_cat/indices?v
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green open .kibana_task_manager 7vYgUxQGRvKF0gqLd5ov6g 1 1 2 0 20kb 7.1kb
green open generic-access-active gn2nleMxTX64E_gwf4caWQ 5 1 4455963 0 2.8gb 1.4gb
green open .kibana_1 7K9JWtJ3SXO6IBji52kKSw 1 1 10 0 55.2kb 27.6kb
green open .security-6 tEGs4UKcRtuAKp3Fdrz4jg 1 1 14 2 81.9kb 41.6kb
green open .kibana_2 v7scKepZRXmTUCBGrS1_Vg 1 1 12 0 74kb 37kb
```
ES version: 6.8.1-1
LS version: 6.8.1-1
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-active-index-fails-to-create-due-to-duplicate-indexes-that-dont-exist/192862/2 "2019-08-27T09:44:23Z")
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