# Unable to use alias in index pattern creation **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 10, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122 "2019-04-10T00:18:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![justinw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/justinw/32/40277_2.png) [@justinw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/justinw)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122/1 "2019-04-10T00:18:50Z")
Hi, I've seen a few old discuss posts about this, and this PR claims to fix it, but myself and others are still having issues using an alias for index pattern creation. Furthermore, creating the pattern on an older version of Kibana works, but cannot be used in newer version of kibana. Thanks, Justin PR: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16715](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16715) Discuss: [Cannot create index pattern using alias](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-create-index-pattern-using-alias/121653), ---
**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122/2 "2019-04-10T08:52:24Z")
Justin, Which Kibana version are you on? Thanks, Bhavya ---
**Author:** ![justinw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/justinw/32/40277_2.png) [@justinw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/justinw)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 1:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122/3 "2019-04-11T01:04:12Z")
I reproduced on 6.5 and 6.6, and this comment indicates 7.0 (rc) too [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16715#issuecomment-481010986](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16715#issuecomment-481010986) ---
**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122/4 "2019-04-11T08:27:52Z")
This is fine on 7.0.0 which was released yesterday. I am going to check on 6.5 and 6.7. cc @mattkime @lukeelmers Thanks for keeping us posted Justin. ---
**Author:** ![justinw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/justinw/32/40277_2.png) [@justinw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/justinw)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122/5 "2019-04-12T00:40:07Z")
Sounds good, thanks for taking a look! We're likely a little ways off from 7, but can get to 6.7.1 soon if it's fixed there. Best, Justin ---
**Author:** ![lukeelmers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukeelmers/32/35230_2.png) [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122/6 "2019-04-15T23:04:06Z")
Thanks for reporting @justinw - I've [added a note](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/16715#issuecomment-483449819) to the discussion on Github, let's continue the conversation there so the others can more easily follow along. TL;DR: for some reason I'm not able to reproduce this, but there may be something I'm missing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-use-alias-in-index-pattern-creation/176122/7 "2019-05-13T23:04:08Z")
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