# Missing create/add index button in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-create-add-index-button-in-kibana/118742>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-create-add-index-button-in-kibana/118742 "2018-02-07T03:05:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![chandukreddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chandukreddi/32/29241_2.png) [@chandukreddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandukreddi)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-create-add-index-button-in-kibana/118742/1 "2018-02-07T03:05:52Z")

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I have newly installed Kibana with elastisearch but to connect with Kibana and elasticsearch I am supposed to create a index pattern but I don;t see any CREATE/ADD button under index pattern.

Kibana version- 6.1.3  
Elasticsearch-6.1.1

I am doing POC for my cassandra log analysis.. I am new to ELK

Can anyone help me? I am attaching image below.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/5/25600e1a83216c3fa136cc8559da6887e7e17aed.png)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-create-add-index-button-in-kibana/118742/2 "2018-02-07T03:18:06Z")

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Can you check that you have data in Elasticsearch via `_cat/indices`?

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**Author:** ![chandukreddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chandukreddi/32/29241_2.png) [@chandukreddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandukreddi)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-create-add-index-button-in-kibana/118742/3 "2018-02-07T16:16:00Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> \_cat/indices?

Here is the output.

elk@localhost ~]$ curl 'localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?v'  
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size  
yellow open customer ddE-cIiqRXqVHRpf1StoUw 5 1 0 0 1.1kb 1.1kb

Thanks  
Chandra

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**Author:** ![chandukreddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chandukreddi/32/29241_2.png) [@chandukreddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandukreddi)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-create-add-index-button-in-kibana/118742/4 "2018-02-07T23:08:06Z")

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It's working now.

After adding some data into elasticksearch I am able to create index pattern on Kibana.

Thanks  
Chandra

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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:** [March 7, 2018, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-create-add-index-button-in-kibana/118742/5 "2018-03-07T23:08:56Z")

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