# Logstash not showing up in Index Patterns **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [November 23, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-showing-up-in-index-patterns/209156 "2019-11-23T16:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thijs\_Kunnen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thijs_kunnen/32/58213_2.png) [@Thijs\_Kunnen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thijs_Kunnen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-showing-up-in-index-patterns/209156/1 "2019-11-23T16:01:25Z")
Hi, and thank you for reading this. I am trying to set up Kibana and add Logstash to view my logs. I started with installing elasticsearch. Here, things already started to get semi weird. I was able to curl localhost:9200 in Putty but when going to the serverip:9200, I got a connection refused error. Problems for later, I thought so I advanced to installing Logstash and Kibana. I configured Kibana (port, elasticsearch ip and server ip) and after starting all services, I was able to go to the Kibana dashboard panel. I added Logstash to the group adm so it has permission to view the apache logs. Added a given apache-logs.conf file to logstash and restarted all 3 services. All this had been done by following the instructions of our lecturer. Next step was to create an index pattern with logstash-\* as pattern but it didn't show up. I've been trying quite a lot to fix this problem by using possible solutions given on the web but none worked yet. I'm using a Debian server. I hope one of you could help me out on this. Let me know if you need anything! Kind regards Thijs ---
**Author:** ![Thijs\_Kunnen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thijs_kunnen/32/58213_2.png) [@Thijs\_Kunnen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thijs_Kunnen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-showing-up-in-index-patterns/209156/2 "2019-11-25T11:16:31Z")
After a lot of trial and error, I managed to fix the problem. Probably an absolute rookie mistake but instead of using the 127.0.0.1 in all configs, I needed to put the ip of the server itself in there. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-showing-up-in-index-patterns/209156/3 "2019-12-23T11:16:39Z")
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