# \[New\_Installation\] Unable to fetch mapping

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 28, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711 "2016-09-28T14:30:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Jebo\_Mobile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@Jebo\_Mobile](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jebo_Mobile)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711/1 "2016-09-28T14:30:20Z")

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Hi, I cannot configure an index pattern beause I have a grey button.  
I follow the steps intructructions to [http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/centos-how-tos/updated-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-centos-7-rhel-7.html](http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux/centos-how-tos/updated-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-centos-7-rhel-7.html)

I can connect to kibana in port 5601 but not in elasticsearch on port 9200. (with web browser).  
the command "curl -X GET [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200)" results is OK.  
I try differents things like filebeat-\*, shakes, elasticsearch, logstash or .kibana in index name but no success.  
.kibana give a time-field name value but with a blank choice.

What's wrong in my parameters ?

Thanks a lot.

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### Author: ![ayushbij27](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ayushbij27/32/24314_2.png) [@ayushbij27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayushbij27)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2016, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711/2 "2016-09-29T07:02:08Z")

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Its fine, elasticsearch unlike kibana does not have GUI interface by default , you can install plugins like **head, hq** to get a web ui of your shards and indexes.

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### Author: ![Jebo\_Mobile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@Jebo\_Mobile](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jebo_Mobile)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2016, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711/3 "2016-09-29T08:02:40Z")

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How install this plugins ?

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### Author: ![ayushbij27](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ayushbij27/32/24314_2.png) [@ayushbij27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayushbij27)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2016, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711/4 "2016-09-29T08:23:29Z")

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You can install head plugin from this link :

> **[mobz/elasticsearch-head](https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head)**
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> elasticsearch-head - A web front end for an elastic search cluster

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### Author: ![Jebo\_Mobile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@Jebo\_Mobile](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jebo_Mobile)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2016, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711/5 "2016-09-29T08:47:36Z")

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OK. T try that. Thanks

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711/6 "2016-09-30T05:02:29Z")

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Did you send data to ES?

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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: [July 6, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-installation-unable-to-fetch-mapping/61711/7 "2017-07-06T13:37:47Z")

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