# Metricbeat ActiveMQ Broker Kibana dashboard showing blank

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [August 6, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053 "2020-08-06T15:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don-cloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/don-cloud/32/69838_2.png) [@Don-cloud](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don-cloud)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/1 "2020-08-06T15:35:00Z")

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Metric version: 7.7.1  
Kibana : 7.6.2

how to make sure kibana dashboard is pointing to the right index?

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/2 "2020-08-06T23:24:26Z")

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You can check each visualization to see what index pattern it's using: go to Kibana -\> Visualize -\> Broker Messages(for example) -\> Panel options, you will see `Index pattern` under Data section.

You can also verify if there are metrics in ES from ActiveMQ broker by going to Kibana Discover and check with a filter using `event.dataset` is `activemq.broker`.

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**Author:** ![Don-cloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/don-cloud/32/69838_2.png) [@Don-cloud](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don-cloud)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/3 "2020-08-07T14:45:16Z")

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i can see all those. but when i go to preloaded dashboard [Metricbeat ActiveMQ] i don't see any data. how do i troubleshoot that. It seems this dashboard is not pointing to the right index pattern.

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/4 "2020-08-07T17:00:57Z")

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Thanks for checking! Could you open one visualization from ActiveMQ broker and check the index pattern there please?

 ![Screen Shot 2020-08-07 at 10.59.16 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/1/41a30959f3d10ac8222a91c82da3191a4e508293.png)

Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![Don-cloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/don-cloud/32/69838_2.png) [@Don-cloud](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don-cloud)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/5 "2020-08-07T17:05:46Z")

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Thanks, It was blank, defaulted to something else. I populated it with metricbeat-\* and time field as shown in diagram. But it didn't fix the default dashboard though.

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**Author:** ![Don-cloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/don-cloud/32/69838_2.png) [@Don-cloud](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don-cloud)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/6 "2020-08-07T17:51:44Z")

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i changed the metricbeat-\* indexpattern to default in management. This fixed the dashboard for metricbeat activemq broker.  
But this shouldn't be the norm. how do i make sure that dashboard is pointed to correct index pattern.

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**Author:** ![Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaiyan_sheng/32/38247_2.png) [@Kaiyan\_Sheng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaiyan_Sheng)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/7 "2020-08-13T22:16:18Z")

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Hi @Don-cloud, I believe this is a bug fixed by [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/18865](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/18865). It shows it's backported to 7.7.2 and 7.8.0. Could you give a newer version of Metricbeat a try? Thanks!

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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:** [September 10, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-activemq-broker-kibana-dashboard-showing-blank/244053/8 "2020-09-10T22:16:24Z")

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