# No matching indices found

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found/116649>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found/116649 "2018-01-23T10:52:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Baskar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@Hari\_Baskar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hari_Baskar)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found/116649/1 "2018-01-23T10:52:55Z")

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Hi,  
I'm getting this error when discovering the data in Kibana for Metricbeat.

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

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found/116649/2 "2018-01-23T14:24:00Z")

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Is Metricbeat running and successfully creating indices. You can go to Kibana Console and run a query like this to check that there are any Metricbeat indicies: `GET /_aliases`.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Baskar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@Hari\_Baskar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hari_Baskar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found/116649/3 "2018-01-24T15:19:50Z")

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Hi Tudor,

Thanks for your reply. I have checked GET /\_aliases, But metricbeat index is not there. So, What to do now?

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**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found/116649/4 "2018-01-25T13:11:15Z")

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Which OS and version do you run? The config file might also be helpful.

Does mertricbeat print any errors when starting? I'd recommend starting with something like this to get the output to the console:

```auto
metricbeat -e

```

To view the published messages, you can start like this:

```auto
metricbeat -e -d "publish"

```

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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:** [February 22, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-matching-indices-found/116649/5 "2018-02-22T13:11:40Z")

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