# Not able to create indeces in kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658 "2017-11-15T04:47:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![mayank.gaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mayank.gaur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayank.gaur)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658/1 "2017-11-15T04:47:45Z")

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![Kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/7/b75dafde618c7c1199b1091e20428b6015bc569a.png)

I have installed logstash properly, but still I am not able to access in Kibana can you please help me out.

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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: [November 15, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658/2 "2017-11-15T05:18:49Z")

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What is the output from calling `_cat/indices`?

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### Author: ![mayank.gaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mayank.gaur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayank.gaur)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658/3 "2017-11-15T05:51:02Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> \_cat/indices

 ![indices](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/8/987f72612fbf64e0d87e07336e598aa9fde73b02.png)

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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: [November 15, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658/4 "2017-11-15T06:16:46Z")

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Please don't post pictures of text, they are difficult to read and some people may not be even able to see them.

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### Author: ![mayank.gaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mayank.gaur](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mayank.gaur)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658/5 "2017-11-15T06:34:55Z")

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Ok sure Please find ind text format.

red open .monitoring-es-6-2017.11.14 yFqaLqNSQsiBzmb37vZVtA 1 1  
red open .monitoring-es-6-2017.11.13 6TuJEQnFT12EETufbCHcSA 1 1  
red open .kibana v0ubi49qR5a89pE\_BwS1hw 1 1  
red open .watcher-history-6-2017.11.14 pE2m9YIcSqS68wLYhke6AA 1 1  
red open .watcher-history-6-2017.11.13 wvO5bnXxTAmjomEOjX\_9ag 1 1  
red open .monitoring-es-6-2017.11.11 G6JMJRhyT1C5GFD2Xa-Zsg 1 1  
red open .monitoring-alerts-6 klujxY0vR3edGo5z\_tMwVA 1 1  
red open .monitoring-es-6-2017.11.10 VRR6SrvqSympVqDZYFKePw 1 1  
yellow open .triggered\_watches LmdqRiGATjWtCCvoJHLFXw 1 1 0 0 892.9kb 892.9kb  
red open .watcher-history-6-2017.11.11 KvKPHgXhQHKAYdoI9tcocQ 1 1  
red open logstash PvVHAXQXQ4aJM7dXS8Gi9Q 5 1 0 0 955b 955b  
red open .watcher-history-6-2017.11.10 uLKLB9LDTxGEwa6LqzkJlA 1 1  
yellow open .watches fktH72osQHaF8s4O8kWjDw 1 1 4 0 28.1kb 28.1kb

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658/6 "2017-11-15T08:14:59Z")

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You are trying to create an index pattern `logstash-*` while your Logstash index is just `logstash`. Note that the `-*` part of the pattern will not match. The default pattern assumes you are using time-based indices, which its seems you are not.

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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: [December 13, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-create-indeces-in-kibana/107658/7 "2017-12-13T08:15:12Z")

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