# Monitoring Cluster stopped receiving data from Production Cluster

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-cluster-stopped-receiving-data-from-production-cluster/286876
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [October 15, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-cluster-stopped-receiving-data-from-production-cluster/286876 "2021-10-15T22:16:21Z")
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### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-cluster-stopped-receiving-data-from-production-cluster/286876/2 "2021-10-16T15:43:52Z")

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Take a look at this post I suspect you perhaps may be in the same situation.

> [@Metricbeat not creating Index correctly](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-not-creating-index-correctly/285863/3):
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> So when you did that you deleted the write alias metricbeat-7.13.4 as well besides the actual indexes with the data in it. You don't want to do that. When you initially ran setup the metricbeat-7.13.4 write alias was created it looked something like this you can read about them [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.15/aliases.html#write-index). They are part of ILM. running setup will re-create it. "metricbeat-7.13.4-2021.10.07-000001" : { "aliases" : { "metricbeat-7.13.4" : { "is\_write\_index" : true } When working properly, …

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