# My 5.6 Index is not being read in Kibana 6.0
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 16, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843 "2017-11-16T00:03:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Merege](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Merege)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843/1 "2017-11-16T00:03:25Z")
Hi, I just updated Elastic Stack to 6.0 from 5.6 version. I had an index created in the previous major version, and in order to visualize it on Kibana 6.0, I had first to change the path.data in elasticsearch.yml.
I can do everything I want in my index through Console in Kibana, but it is not possible to create an Index Pattern based on it. Kibana can identify the index, but when I click in Create Button, nothing happens.
Do I need to do some extra thing in order to be able to work with this index in Kibana 6.0? I couldn't find any page in the internet that could help me on that!
Thanks,
Daniel
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843/2 "2017-11-16T04:38:44Z")
Did you follow the instructions mentioned here? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.x/reindex-upgrade.html#reindex-upgrade](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.x/reindex-upgrade.html#reindex-upgrade)
Can you please attach the logs as well?
Thanks
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Merege](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Merege)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843/3 "2017-11-16T11:44:34Z")
I read somewhere that Elastic 6.0 could read indices from elastic 5.6. So I decided to upgrade, but after doing so, I found this article for reindexing. So I didn't reindex before upgrading.
Is is possible to do so running 6.0 version?
Thanks,
Daniel
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843/4 "2017-11-16T16:01:21Z")
HI
yes , its possible: instructions are here:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/migrating-6.0-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/migrating-6.0-index.html)
Let us know if you need more help...
Thanks
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@Daniel\_Merege](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Daniel_Merege)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843/5 "2017-11-16T18:39:14Z")
Hi Rashmi,
It worked pretty well!
Thanks again,
Daniel
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843/6 "2017-11-16T18:39:48Z")
Thanks for closing the loop, Daniel. Glad it worked!
-Rashmi
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-5-6-index-is-not-being-read-in-kibana-6-0/107843/7 "2017-12-14T18:39:52Z")
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