# Missing index pattern heartbeat-\*

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-index-pattern-heartbeat/247394>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-index-pattern-heartbeat/247394 "2020-09-03T13:37:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![ManuelF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@ManuelF](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ManuelF)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-index-pattern-heartbeat/247394/3 "2020-09-04T14:52:24Z")

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Hi @shahzad31,

Thank you for answering. Heartbeat is sending data to Elasticsearch that is only available from Uptime UI, but the index `heartbeat-*` is not being created and I would like to used like in the past I used to.

> Maybe this is related to another issue I am seeing with heartbeat. Running `heartbeat setup` should probably be setting up the index pattern `heartbeat-*` . Instead, it is setting up the index pattern `UptimeIndexPattern` which does not seem to work with anything other than the Uptime UI (for example, you cannot use it in Discover or Lens).

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