# No indices match pattern filebeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-indices-match-pattern-filebeat/162517>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 31, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-indices-match-pattern-filebeat/162517 "2018-12-31T12:32:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ahmed\_Yousry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ahmed\_Yousry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ahmed_Yousry)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-indices-match-pattern-filebeat/162517/1 "2018-12-31T12:32:36Z")

</div>

No matching indices found: No indices match pattern "filebeat-\*"

i found this error

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-indices-match-pattern-filebeat/162517/2 "2018-12-31T16:42:10Z")

</div>

Hey @Ahmed_Yousry, we need more information to help you.  
Do you know for a fact that you have indices matching that pattern? Did you delete the indices that used to match that pattern?

Do you have security enabled? If so, it's possible that your account doesn't have access to any indices matching that pattern.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-indices-match-pattern-filebeat/162517/3 "2019-01-28T16:42:11Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.