# Metricbeat - Can't see linked indices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-see-linked-indices/348166
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [November 28, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-see-linked-indices/348166 "2023-11-28T16:36:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Swathi12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Swathi12)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-see-linked-indices/348166/1 "2023-11-28T16:36:05Z")
Hi together,
after an issue with metricbeat i have to re-configure everything again.
i deployed on my kuberentes cluster metricbeat-7.17.8. In Kibana i can't see any linked indices but logs tells me no error
```auto
2023-11-28T16:30:08.546Z INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:261 Auto ILM enable success.
2023-11-28T16:30:08.693Z INFO [index-management.ilm] ilm/std.go:170 ILM policy metricbeat exists already.
2023-11-28T16:30:08.693Z INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:397 Set setup.template.name to '{metricbeat-7.17.8 {now/d}-000001}' as ILM is enabled.
2023-11-28T16:30:08.693Z INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:402 Set setup.template.pattern to 'metricbeat-7.17.8-*' as ILM is enabled.
2023-11-28T16:30:08.693Z INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:436 Set settings.index.lifecycle.rollover_alias in template to {metricbeat-7.17.8 {now/d}-000001} as ILM is enabled.
2023-11-28T16:30:08.693Z INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:440 Set settings.index.lifecycle.name in template to {metricbeat {"policy":{"phases":{"hot":{"actions":{"rollover":{"max_age":"30d","max_size":"50gb"}}}}}}} as ILM is enabled.
2023-11-28T16:30:08.746Z INFO template/load.go:110 Template "metricbeat-7.17.8" already exists and will not be overwritten.
2023-11-28T16:30:08.746Z INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:297 Loaded index template.
2023-11-28T16:30:28.881Z ERROR metrics/metrics.go:376 error getting cgroup stats: error fetching stats for controller io: error fetching IO stats: error getting io.stats for path /hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup: error scanning file: /hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup/io.stat: input does not match format
2023-11-28T16:30:28.881Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:184 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":3240,"time":{"ms":15}},"total":{"ticks":12730,"time":{"ms":206},"value":12730},"user":{"ticks":9490,"time":{"ms":191}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":1048576,"soft":1048576},"open":11},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"e5e8a507-3c2c-457e-921b-a41ed84d2bb9","uptime":{"ms":1320085},"version":"7.17.8"},"memstats":{"gc_next":150273304,"memory_alloc":76376400,"memory_total":1534151128,"rss":274178048},"runtime":{"goroutines":2553}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":4}},"output":{"events":{"active":0},"read":{"bytes":6161},"write":{"bytes":4862}},"pipeline":{"clients":14,"events":{"active":4129,"retry":50}}},"system":{"load":{"1":0.14,"15":0.35,"5":0.22,"norm":{"1":0.035,"15":0.0875,"5":0.055}}}}}}
2023-11-28T16:30:58.880Z ERROR metrics/metrics.go:376 error getting cgroup stats: error fetching stats for controller io: error fetching IO stats: error getting io.stats for path /hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup: error scanning file: /hostfs/sys/fs/cgroup/io.stat: input does not match format
2023-11-28T16:30:58.881Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:184 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":3250,"time":{"ms":15}},"total":{"ticks":12770,"time":{"ms":46},"value":12770},"user":{"ticks":9520,"time":{"ms":31}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":1048576,"soft":1048576},"open":11},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"e5e8a507-3c2c-457e-921b-a41ed84d2bb9","uptime":{"ms":1350083},"version":"7.17.8"},"memstats":{"gc_next":150273304,"memory_alloc":77736200,"memory_total":1535510928,"rss":274448384},"runtime":{"goroutines":2553}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":4}},"output":{"events":{"active":0}},"pipeline":{"clients":14,"events":{"active":4129,"filtered":1,"total":1}}},"metricbeat":{"system":{"filesystem":{"events":1,"success":1}}},"system":{"load":{"1":0.14,"15":0.35,"5":0.22,"norm":{"1":0.035,"15":0.0875,"5":0.055}}}}}}
2023-11-28T16:31:05.796Z ERROR [publisher_pipeline_output] pipeline/output.go:154 Failed to connect to backoff(elasticsearch(http://elasticsearchxxxxxxx:80)): Connection marked as failed because the onConnect callback failed: resource 'metricbeat-7.17.8' exists, but it is not an alias
2023-11-28T16:31:05.796Z INFO [publisher_pipeline_output] pipeline/output.go:145 Attempting to reconnect to backoff(elasticsearch(http://elasticsearch.xxxxxxx:80)) with 34 reconnect attempt(s)
2023-11-28T16:31:05.796Z INFO [publisher] pipeline/retry.go:219 retryer: send unwait signal to consumer
2023-11-28T16:31:05.796Z INFO [publisher] pipeline/retry.go:223 done
2023-11-28T16:32:58.881Z INFO [monitoring] log/log.go:184 Non-zero metrics in the last 30s {"monitoring": {"metrics": {"beat":{"cpu":{"system":{"ticks":3370,"time":{"ms":45}},"total":{"ticks":13220,"time":{"ms":165},"value":13220},"user":{"ticks":9850,"time":{"ms":120}}},"handles":{"limit":{"hard":1048576,"soft":1048576},"open":11},"info":{"ephemeral_id":"e5e8a507-3c2c-457e-921b-a41ed84d2bb9","uptime":{"ms":1470084},"version":"7.17.8"},"memstats":{"gc_next":142801880,"memory_alloc":79917256,"memory_total":1555460904,"rss":234602496},"runtime":{"goroutines":2553}},"libbeat":{"config":{"module":{"running":4}},"output":{"events":{"active":0},"read":{"bytes":6160},"write":{"bytes":4862}},"pipeline":{"clients":14,"events":{"active":4129,"filtered":1,"retry":50,"total":1}}},"metricbeat":{"system":{"filesystem":{"events":1,"success":1}}},"system":{"load":{"1":1.48,"15":0.46,"5":0.58,"norm":{"1":0.37,"15":0.115,"5":0.145}}}}}}
```
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-see-linked-indices/348166/2 "2023-11-28T16:43:29Z")
> [@Swathi12](#):
>
> ```auto
> 2023-11-28T16:31:05.796Z ERROR [publisher_pipeline_output] pipeline/output.go:154 Failed to connect to backoff(elasticsearch(http://elasticsearchxxxxxxx:80)): Connection marked as failed because the onConnect callback failed: resource 'metricbeat-7.17.8' exists, but it is not an alias
>
> ```
That's the error so no data is getting written.
Can you share your metricbeat.yml please?
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### Author:  [@Swathi12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Swathi12)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-see-linked-indices/348166/4 "2023-11-29T10:32:43Z")
i took this deployment yaml file and this page guide
([Run Metricbeat on Kubernetes | Metricbeat Reference [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/running-on-kubernetes.html)) - Version 7.17.8
([https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/beats/7.17/deploy/kubernetes/metricbeat-kubernetes.yaml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/beats/7.17/deploy/kubernetes/metricbeat-kubernetes.yaml)) - Version 7.17.8
changed only the image and the connection details
```auto
image: docker.elastic.co/beats/metricbeat:7.17.8
env:
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_HOST
value: elasticsearch.xxxxxxxx.com
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_PORT
value: "80"
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME
value: xxxxxxx
- name: ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD
value: xxxxxxxx
- name: ELASTIC_CLOUD_ID
value:
- name: ELASTIC_CLOUD_AUTH
value:
- name: NODE_NAME
```
**Before it worked well but now not**
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### Author:  [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-cant-see-linked-indices/348166/5 "2023-11-29T15:42:28Z")
> [@Swathi12](#):
>
> `metricbeat-7.17.8`
So what usually has happened is that the Alias `metricbeat-7.17.8` was removed / deleted...
So now metricbeat is trying to write to an alias which no longer exists... instead it is writing to a
"Concrete / Actual" index which is not correct.
`GET _cat/aliases/metricbeat-7.17.8?v`
It should look like this.. but I suspect yours is missing
```auto
alias index filter routing.index routing.search is_write_index
metricbeat-7.17.8 metricbeat-7.17.3-2028.11.29-000001 - - - true
```
2nd run...
`GET metricbeat-7.17.8`
is SHOULD looks like this but you will be missing the alias section.
```auto
GET metricbeat-7.17.8
{
"metricbeat-7.17.8-2023.11.29-000001" : {
"aliases" : {
"metricbeat-7.17.8" : {