# Unable to write index pattern

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-write-index-pattern/146167>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-write-index-pattern/146167 "2018-08-27T11:39:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![theflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@theflakes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theflakes)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-write-index-pattern/146167/7 "2018-09-14T16:43:45Z")

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I'm seeing this same issue. Came to a head last night when we needed to refresh the field list in Kibana and it kept timing out.

This is the discussion I started on that: [Cannot refresh field list](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-refresh-field-list/148569/7)

We do use the free version of SearchGuard, not sure if that is contributing in any way.

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