# Unable to create index **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 3, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939 "2017-04-03T03:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Raja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Raja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raja1)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/1 "2017-04-03T03:09:51Z")
Hi All, I am unable to create index in Kibana dashboard and even deafault index also not showing. Some one please suggest what could be the reason behind this. Please find below screen shot. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/d/5d450d3cb27a01dd792e96297c0a383dd8b77443.png) Regards Raja ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/2 "2017-04-03T03:16:13Z")
Do you have data in Elasticsearch? ---
**Author:** ![Raja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Raja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raja1)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/3 "2017-04-03T03:16:50Z")
Yes, I have data in elasticsearch ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/4 "2017-04-03T03:26:31Z")
What index name(s) does it have? ---
**Author:** ![Raja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Raja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raja1)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/5 "2017-04-03T03:31:25Z")
Sorry I am not getting your question. I am not able to see any index in Kibana , it does mean nothing is there in elasticsearch right? I have just created the conf file in logstash to read the logs. In output property i have configured below elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"] } It means elasticsearch index with default one right? Regards Raja ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/6 "2017-04-03T04:15:12Z")
Have a look at the `_cat/indices` API, what does it show? ---
**Author:** ![Raja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Raja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raja1)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/7 "2017-04-03T04:18:46Z")
root@61a76e54g043:/# curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices)' yellow open .kibana Zb-chW6CTi-ODtGQGwPPrg 1 1 1 0 3.2kb 3.2kb ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/8 "2017-04-03T04:19:23Z")
Ok, so you don't have any data in ES (the .kibana index doesn't count here). If you are using Logstash, then posting your config would be useful. ---
**Author:** ![Raja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Raja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raja1)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/9 "2017-04-03T04:20:33Z")
input { file { path =\> "/etc/logstash/\*.log" } } filter { } output { elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"] } } ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/10 "2017-04-03T06:12:16Z")
Are you adding more data to that input file? ---
**Author:** ![Raja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Raja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raja1)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/11 "2017-04-03T09:29:33Z")
No, just 100 lines of logs ---
**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:** [April 3, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/12 "2017-04-03T20:43:32Z")
Then this is likely to be a sincedb issue, so have a look at the file input documentation for that. ---
**Author:** ![Raja1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Raja1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raja1)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/13 "2017-04-07T06:54:35Z")
Hi Mark, The data is just a elasticsearch logs. How it will relate to sincedb issue? Regards Raja ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-index/80939/14 "2017-05-05T07:01:26Z")
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