# No default index pattern. You must select or create one to continue
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/94896
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 28, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/94896 "2017-07-28T04:24:28Z")
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### Author:  [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/94896/1 "2017-07-28T04:24:28Z")
Hi,
I have installed ELK stack on a single server and also filebeat on the same box. Configured filebeat.yml to send the sample log files . below is the fields:
# Paths that should be crawled and fetched. Glob based paths.
paths:
- /home/user/logstash-tutorial-dataset
fields:
index: test\_app
source\_type: app\_log
application\_name: learn
aws\_region: dev\_east
Also i have configured the corresponding logstash conf file to look like this:
input {
beats {
port =\> "5043"
}
}
# The filter part of this file is commented out to indicate that it is
# optional.
# filter {
#
# }
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]
}
When i load the Kibana console i see the message "No default index pattern . You must select or create one to continue.
I am continously writing entries to my log file and logstash is running. But the data is not written to the ES indices.
My question is : Is there any different process to create the indices on ES or just defining in the filebeat.yml is enough and will be displayed in the kibana console.
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/94896/2 "2017-07-28T05:27:21Z")
Per the documentation here, it says you have to load the index template into Elasticsearch manually. Give it a try and see if you run into problems yet. Let us know if you need more help.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/config-filebeat-logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/config-filebeat-logstash.html)
Thanks
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/94896/3 "2017-07-28T15:55:23Z")
I did that, but now Kibana shows that it can not connect to Elasticsearch on [http://localhost:9200](http://localhost:9200).
My current setup
All three components are installed on the same machine and in all three yml files i have defined the CNAME for network.host . The CNAME points to the IP address of the server.
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### Author:  [@shroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shroh)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/94896/4 "2017-07-28T16:32:47Z")
Now the Elastic search is started, i again get the error that says "No default index pattern defined". ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-default-index-pattern-you-must-select-or-create-one-to-continue/94896/5 "2017-08-25T16:33:25Z")
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