# .monitoring\* indices do not exist
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indices-do-not-exist/129656
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 26, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indices-do-not-exist/129656 "2018-04-26T12:05:12Z")
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### Author:  [@bobby259](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bobby259)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indices-do-not-exist/129656/1 "2018-04-26T12:05:13Z")
On our new 6.2 cluster, I configured x-pack and in monitoring (on kibana) I see "No Monitoring Data Found". When I look back into the indices,
GET /\_cat/indices?v
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green open .watcher-history-7-2018.04.25 pGQ2hQB-RyKBNDGevc-Fmg 1 1 744 0 1.3mb 688.2kb
green open .watches bJjfJ0Y5RYyCSDR9yFwxEg 1 1 6 0 99.9kb 49.9kb
green open .triggered\_watches \_tu5ce2JS-KRDoVU\_JEniA 1 1 0 0 205.6kb 102.8kb
Here's my elasticsearch.yml config:
action.auto\_create\_index: .security,.monitoring\*,.watches,.triggered\_watches,.watcher-history\*,.ml\*
xpack.security.enabled: false
xpack.monitoring.enabled: true
xpack.graph.enabled: false
xpack.watcher.enabled: false
And, kibana.yml
server.name: "es6-kibana-01"
elasticsearch.url: "[http://es-host:9200](http://es-host:9200)"
xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.url: "[http://es-host:9200](http://es-host:9200)"
xpack.security.enabled: false
xpack.monitoring.enabled: true
xpack.graph.enabled: false
xpack.watcher.enabled: false
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### Author:  [@JKhondhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JKhondhu)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indices-do-not-exist/129656/2 "2018-04-26T14:03:06Z")
Did you install X-Pack on both Elasticsearch and Kibana?
Kibana automatically sends metrics to the Elasticsearch cluster specified in the elasticsearch.url property in kibana.yml, which defaults to [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200).
ref: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/monitoring-kibana.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.2/monitoring-kibana.html)
After yaml files updated have Elasticsearch and Kibana since been restarted?
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### Author:  [@bobby259](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bobby259)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indices-do-not-exist/129656/3 "2018-04-26T14:08:11Z")
Hi @JKhondhu
Yes, I installed x-pack on both elasticsearch and kibana nodes. And, the cluster has been restarted after config changes.
I do see indices related to watcher on my cluster but nothing related to monitoring. Am I missing any configuration in my .yml files?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitoring-indices-do-not-exist/129656/4 "2018-05-24T14:08:16Z")
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