# Troubleshooting Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-elastic-search/62859>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 12, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-elastic-search/62859 "2016-10-12T19:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![namobuddhaonion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@namobuddhaonion](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/namobuddhaonion)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-elastic-search/62859/1 "2016-10-12T19:53:47Z")

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I'm following this tutorial:

> **[How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 16.04 |...](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elk-stack-on-ubuntu-16-04)**
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> In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elasticsearch ELK Stack on Ubuntu 16.04 (that is, Elasticsearch 2.3.x, Logstash 2.3.x, and Kibana 4.5.x). We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your...

Instead of a server for filebeat I'm using an Ubuntu 16.x workstation.

Everything looks OK, but the out of:  
curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/filebeat-\*/\_search?pretty](http://localhost:9200/filebeat-*/_search?pretty)'

is

{  
"took" : 1,  
"timed\_out" : false,  
"\_shards" : {  
"total" : 0,  
"successful" : 0,  
"failed" : 0  
},  
"hits" : {  
"total" : 0,  
"max\_score" : 0.0,  
"hits" : []  
}  
}

The tutorial says this means there is a configuration error. Where's a good place to start troubleshooting?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-elastic-search/62859/2 "2017-07-05T22:12:55Z")

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