When I use the re-index helper on my 5.6.6 cluster for either the kibana or watcher index elastic will not start on nodes any more. in the logs I get Error injecting constructor, java.lang.IllegalStateException: index and alias names need to be unique, but the following duplicates were found [.wat…

Upgrade assistant re-index helper writes off cluster

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