# Unable to create index patterns in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index-patterns-in-kibana/206180>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 1, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index-patterns-in-kibana/206180 "2019-11-01T14:40:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![RiyazM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/riyazm/32/48837_2.png) [@RiyazM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RiyazM)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index-patterns-in-kibana/206180/1 "2019-11-01T14:40:15Z")

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hello ,  
we have installed EFK stack in kubernetes using the helm chart [efk-stack](https://github.com/oracle/cloudnative/tree/master/observability-and-analysis/logging/efk-stack).But there is a issue that sometimes its not possible to create a index pattern in kibana. Even if it succeeds the Index pattern gets deleted after some time.

```
NAME REVISION UPDATED STATUS CHART APP VERSION NAMESPACE
invited-boxer 1 Fri Nov 1 06:03:32 2019 DEPLOYED elasticsearch-0.1.0 devops

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pods

```
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
invited-boxer-elasticsearch-logging-0 1/1 Running 0 8h
invited-boxer-elasticsearch-logging-1 1/1 Running 0 8h
invited-boxer-fluentd-es-8bhrf 1/1 Running 0 8h
invited-boxer-fluentd-es-cbrz2 1/1 Running 0 8h
invited-boxer-fluentd-es-p6526 1/1 Running 0 8h
invited-boxer-kibana-logging-f885c8d88-wr827 1/1 Running 0 8h
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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index-patterns-in-kibana/206180/2 "2019-11-01T17:18:18Z")

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Can you provide more details for "sometimes its not possible to create a index pattern in kibana". What is preventing you from creating index patterns? Are errors displayed?

What does your environment look like? Is elasticsearch instance getting moved around/re-created? Are there other users of the system that may have deleted Kibana's index?

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**Author:** ![RiyazM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/riyazm/32/48837_2.png) [@RiyazM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RiyazM)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index-patterns-in-kibana/206180/3 "2019-11-02T02:16:24Z")

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"Are errors displayed?"  
no  
Please check the screen shot, Index created

 ![Screenshot%20from%202019-11-02%2007-33-45](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/d/ede0228f4b3aeeec6d0d87a70eb14b541336e79e.png)

when i try to visualize data it says to create one

 ![Screenshot%20from%202019-11-02%2007-36-19](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/f/7fd2c6f7c718162232c304055b60553944899807.png)

But its already ther

 ![Screenshot%20from%202019-11-02%2007-35-48](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/0/f0c1ebf7777194e39f33873e97ffc87333d2c147.png)

"What does your environment look like? "  
k8s cluster just started to explore logs  
"Is elasticsearch instance getting moved around/re-created? "  
no  
"Are there other users of the system that may have deleted Kibana's index?"  
At the moment only couple of us using and none deleted the Kibana's index?

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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:** [November 30, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index-patterns-in-kibana/206180/4 "2019-11-30T02:16:27Z")

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