# Unable to fetch mapping with kibana, however there are indices in Elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 19, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998 "2017-09-19T09:24:24Z")
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### Author:  [@Nandor\_Soma\_Abonyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nandor_Soma_Abonyi)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/1 "2017-09-19T09:24:24Z")
Hello!
I have a problem that I can't configure index pattern.
Error message:
Unable to fetch mapping. Do you have indices matching the pattern?
Seems like that Kibana can't query elasticsearch properly.
curl '[http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices)' returns:
yellow open .kibana uciy46GzSGSDs9fUlSnH2g 1 1 1 0 3.1kb 3.1kb
yellow open logstash-2017.09.18 OjAoSQqgQB-GNQIO9xGnKA 5 1 33 0 65.9kb 65.9kb
yellow open logstash-2017.09.19 ed0hHZbcRQK0yyIfbRsAgg 5 1 180059 0 70.8mb 70.8mb
My first thought would be that kibana can't connect to elasticsearch, but that's not true because when elasticsearch is not running I getting a different error that Kibana can't reach it.
OS: RHEL 6
Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you!
Soma
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/2 "2017-09-19T09:28:08Z")
What index pattern are you defining?
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### Author:  [@Nandor\_Soma\_Abonyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nandor_Soma_Abonyi)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/3 "2017-09-19T09:32:24Z")
Hey!
logstash-\* (the default one)
I also forgot to mention that kibana.stderr is empty
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/4 "2017-09-19T09:34:45Z")
That's odd, anything telling in the Kibana logs?
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### Author:  [@Nandor\_Soma\_Abonyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nandor_Soma_Abonyi)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/5 "2017-09-19T09:38:54Z")
Nothing.
kibana.stderr - empty
kibana.stdout
there are a lot of information about opening the kibana page itself
only interesting is that one:
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2017-09-18T15:27:45Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.4.0","info"],"pid":10351,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from yellow to green - Kibana index ready","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Wait
ing for Elasticsearch"}
But it says that everything is ok.
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### Author:  [@Nandor\_Soma\_Abonyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nandor_Soma_Abonyi)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/6 "2017-09-19T11:02:54Z")
What is also interesing that under dev tools with the next query I see that there are logs in elasticsearch.
```
GET _search
{
"query": {
"match_all": {}
}
}
```
Part of the result:
{
"took": 2,
"timed\_out": false,
"\_shards": {
"total": 11,
"successful": 11,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 180093,
"max\_score": 1,
"hits": [
{
"\_index": ".kibana",
"\_type": "config",
"\_id": "5.4.0",
"\_score": 1,
"\_source": {
"buildNum": 15063
}
},
{
"\_index": "logstash-2017.09.18",
"\_type": "logs",
"\_id": "AV6PgqIYCVprfWztgKrF",
"\_score": 1,
"\_source": {
"path": "/opt/test/test.2017-09-18.log",
"@timestamp": "2017-09-18T15:01:58.533Z",
"data": "32479234",
"log-level": "DEBUG",
"@version": "1",
"host": "test-elastic-srv",
"thread": "[taskScheduler-2]",
"message": "2017-09-18 00:00:45.527 [taskScheduler-2] DEBUG a.s.d.p.TestServiceImpl - new request",
"logtime": "2017-09-18 00:00:45.527",
"class": "a.s.d.p.TestServiceImpl",
"tags": [
"test-app"
]
}
}
]
}
}
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### Author:  [@Nandor\_Soma\_Abonyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nandor_Soma_Abonyi)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/7 "2017-10-03T15:07:07Z")
Hello!
I still need help. I tried to reinstall/reconfigure kibana and elasticsearch but it still does not work.
Theres no error in the logs.
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/8 "2017-10-03T15:36:50Z")
Does logstash\* work. I am wondering if either the index name or the pattern are using different characters (en-dash vs. hyphen, for example).
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### Author:  [@Nandor\_Soma\_Abonyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nandor_Soma_Abonyi)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/9 "2017-10-03T15:48:08Z")
Doesn't work. ☹ I even tried l\*
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-fetch-mapping-with-kibana-however-there-are-indices-in-elasticsearch/100998/10 "2017-10-31T15:48:26Z")
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