# No matching indices found: No indices match pattern "winlogbeat-\*"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found-no-indices-match-pattern-winlogbeat/260134>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 4, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found-no-indices-match-pattern-winlogbeat/260134 "2021-01-04T21:14:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2021, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found-no-indices-match-pattern-winlogbeat/260134/15 "2021-01-05T02:14:47Z")

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First @sixstringssteve in the future please format your yml with the formatting button above `</>` otherwise it is very difficult to help.

2nd there are some important concept that you really need to understand / take a look at with respect to Elasticsearch ...

Take a look at [This](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n00b-trying-to-set-up-on-windows/197514/4) post that I wrote up a while ago... this is one windows but the concepts are the same

In short, Elastic forces you to make a **very** conscious decision to attach your cluster to the network... as soon as you do you should be thinking about auth / auth data security etc. With the proper configuration you can dev / test etc , but you need to set some settings and you should read about them first... but in no way do we recommend putting production data in an unsecured cluster.

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