### Author:  [@Marc-Antoine\_J](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marc-Antoine_J)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-using-system-indices/167684/1 "2019-02-08T20:31:50Z")
Hi all,
I'm trying to get my cluster stats out of the .monitoring-\* index with NEST and I can't get a result out so I was wondering if it does not allow querying system indices?
```
TermQuery termQuery = new TermQuery
{
Field = "type",
Value = "cluster_stats"
};
response = await _client.SearchAsync(s => s
.From(0)
.Size(1)
.Index(".monitoring-*")
.Query(q => q
.Term(tq => termQuery)
)
```
);
I set my connection to provide details (from OnRequestCompleted) and I can see the request (JSON) passed and there no hits in the result. When I copy paste my request in my kibana console, I get thousands of hits...
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-using-system-indices/167684/2 "2019-02-10T09:51:51Z")
I suspect you also need to set `.Type(...)` with the document type in the .monitoring indices
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### Author:  [@Marc-Antoine\_J](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marc-Antoine_J)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-using-system-indices/167684/3 "2019-02-11T13:05:33Z")
It did actually work! Why is that? The `.Type(...)` is always required? Isn't it going to be deprecated in 7.0.0 of elasticsearch?
Thanks @forloop
I was using the guide here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/current/writing-queries.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/current/writing-queries.html) and it did not specify that the document type had to be specified for a query.
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### Author:  [@forloop](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/forloop)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-using-system-indices/167684/4 "2019-02-11T13:28:51Z")
Type is being deprecated, but it's still needed for 6.x.
In the absence of an explicit `.Type()` method call or any conventions set up on `ConnectionSettings` with
- `.DefaultTypeName()`
- .`.DefaultTypeNameInferrer()`
- use of `DataContractAttribute` or `ElasticsearchTypeAttribute` on the POCO type
NEST infers the type name by lowercasing the POCO type name. Check out [type inference](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/current/types-and-relations-inference.html) for more details
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nest-using-system-indices/167684/5 "2019-03-11T13:28:54Z")
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