# Monitors not showing in Uptime

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitors-not-showing-in-uptime/198243>\
**Category:** Synthetics\
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitors-not-showing-in-uptime/198243 "2019-09-05T12:18:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![norgro2601](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/norgro2601/32/33292_2.png) [@norgro2601](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/norgro2601)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitors-not-showing-in-uptime/198243/1 "2019-09-05T12:18:31Z")

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I have an index with name "heartbeat-something". In the considerations for uptime it's said, that uptime requires an index pattern called "heartbeat-7\*". [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/uptime/current/install-heartbeat.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/uptime/current/install-heartbeat.html)  
I've created an alias "heartbeat-7-something" as the workaround, but still uptime is not showing any data.  
What have I missed ?

Regards, Norbert

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitors-not-showing-in-uptime/198243/2 "2019-09-13T01:09:40Z")

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That should work. You can see where we define the pattern here: `https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/7.4/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/common/constants/index_names.ts#L8`, in fact the `7` is not required.

I'm not quite sure what's missing. Have you checked the browser debugger when accessing the uptime app? I'm curious if something else is going on.

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**Author:** ![norgro2601](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/norgro2601/32/33292_2.png) [@norgro2601](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/norgro2601)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitors-not-showing-in-uptime/198243/3 "2019-09-13T12:28:06Z")

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I had the chance to start from scratch removing all heartbeat indices before trying again, and it works, and without the 7 in the name. Don't know what the problem was before.

Best regards, Norbert

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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:** [October 7, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/monitors-not-showing-in-uptime/198243/4 "2019-10-07T12:28:07Z")

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