# Unable to create Filebeat index
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935 "2017-03-01T08:08:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2017, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935/1 "2017-03-01T08:08:36Z")
Im unable to index filebeat into kibana.
Please help in indexing filebeat into kibana.
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### Author:  [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2017, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935/2 "2017-03-01T09:35:43Z")
Please share the following:
- Your setup
- Versions used
- Errors you get
- Logs
- Config files
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### Author:  [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935/3 "2017-03-01T10:11:46Z")
I Have setup in windows 2012 server
ELK stack 5.2 version used
Filebeat cannot able to index into elasticsearch
please find the error below, ES ping not happening. Please suggest
2017-03-01T13:14:44+05:30 DBG ES Ping(url=http://10.209.68.81:9201, timeout=1m30s)
2017-03-01T13:14:45+05:30 DBG Ping request failed with: Get [http://10.209.68.81:9201](http://10.209.68.81:9201): dial tcp 10.209.68.81:9201: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
2017-03-01T13:14:45+05:30 ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): Get [http://10.209.68.81:9201](http://10.209.68.81:9201): dial tcp 10.209.68.81:9201: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
2017-03-01T13:14:45+05:30 DBG send fail
2017-03-01T13:14:46+05:30 DBG Flushing spooler because of timeout. Events flushed: 0
2017-03-01T13:20:28+05:30 DBG ES Ping(url=http://10.209.68.81:9201, timeout=1m30s)
2017-03-01T13:20:28+05:30 DBG Ping request failed with: 401 Unauthorized
2017-03-01T13:20:28+05:30 ERR Connecting error publishing events (retrying): 401 Unauthorized
2017-03-01T13:20:28+05:30 DBG send fail
2017-03-01T13:20:30+05:30 DBG Flushing spooler because of timeout. Events flushed: 0
2017-03-01T13:20:30+05:30 DBG Run prospector
2017-03-01T13:20:30+05:30 DBG Start next scan
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### Author:  [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935/4 "2017-03-01T10:12:45Z")
ES is pointing to 9201 port and if i index filebeat to ES for 9201 port, im getting above error.
I couldnot able to index filebeat into kibana.
Please help
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935/5 "2017-03-01T17:52:46Z")
Duplicate. Please don't open multiple topics discussing the very same issue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-filebeat-index/76935/6 "2017-03-29T17:52:48Z")
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