# Set defaultIndex failed **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 23, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-defaultindex-failed/145663 "2018-08-23T06:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whoami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9a28c/32.png) [@whoami](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whoami)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-defaultindex-failed/145663/1 "2018-08-23T06:42:00Z")
kibana 6.4: I set the defaultIndex then I refresh the page, but config.get('defaultIndex') is always the default value (null), why? I read the source code and found no code about getting config from es PS: the config is already exists in es .kibana/doc/config:6.4 ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-defaultindex-failed/145663/2 "2018-08-23T15:48:06Z")
Hrm, that's strange. The config service should work. Are you writing that document by hand? I think the ID of the document might be wrong; when I look at my local development instance, which is running against master, the ID is `config:7.0.0-alpha1`. Note that uses the _entire_ version, not just the major and minor parts. I think that needs to match whatever version is in Kibana's `package.json` in the root directory. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-defaultindex-failed/145663/3 "2018-09-20T15:48:16Z")
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