# ML Adv Job Config - Only .ml and .kibana show in Input index drop down

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-adv-job-config-only-ml-and-kibana-show-in-input-index-drop-down/138007>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\
**Created:** [June 29, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-adv-job-config-only-ml-and-kibana-show-in-input-index-drop-down/138007 "2018-06-29T16:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![jc034240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jc034240](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jc034240)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-adv-job-config-only-ml-and-kibana-show-in-input-index-drop-down/138007/1 "2018-06-29T16:44:23Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I'm trying to create an advanced job (via gui) and .ml and .kibana are the only indices that show in the "Input index" drop down box.

My steps:

1. "Create and advanced job"
2. "Input index" radial button
3. "Input index" dropdown box.  
At this point our expected time based indexes are not showing up in the dropdown box.

I also do not see our expected indexes if for step 3 from above I choose "Choose index from list"

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-adv-job-config-only-ml-and-kibana-show-in-input-index-drop-down/138007/2 "2018-06-29T21:41:22Z")

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Hi Jason,

The ML UI will show only those indices that have an index pattern created for them in Kibana. Just go to Management -\> Index Patterns and create an index pattern for the data index or indices that you hope to analyze with ML.

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**Author:** ![jc034240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jc034240](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jc034240)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-adv-job-config-only-ml-and-kibana-show-in-input-index-drop-down/138007/3 "2018-07-02T14:44:41Z")

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Hello Rich,  
Actually that is the thing. We have a bunch of other indexes that show up under Management; which is expected. We have been using Elastic for security logging for quite some time and none of those indexes show up when trying to create an Advanced ML job.

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**Author:** ![jc034240](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jc034240](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jc034240)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-adv-job-config-only-ml-and-kibana-show-in-input-index-drop-down/138007/4 "2018-07-02T16:32:56Z")

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This has now been resolved. I'm speculating our admins of Elastic changed my permissions.

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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:** [October 30, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ml-adv-job-config-only-ml-and-kibana-show-in-input-index-drop-down/138007/5 "2018-10-30T22:21:37Z")

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