# Upgrade from ES/Kibana 6.1.1 to 6.2.2 (No default index pattern.)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 6, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721 "2018-03-06T12:50:16Z")
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### Author:  [@cawoodm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cawoodm)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2018, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721/1 "2018-03-06T12:50:16Z")
Downloaded ElasticSearch and Kibana 6.2.2 and copied across the existing 6.1.1 config/ and data/ folders to the new installation. ES looks fine but Kibana seems to be confused:
"No default index pattern. You must select or create one to continue."
It's not clear to me what this message means or what I should do about it.
Has Kibana "forgotten" which index (namely .kibana) it uses to store it's settings?
Index Status in ES:
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
...
yellow open .kibana-6 azxxxxETNKIXRuxxxxxxXA 1 1 332 23 317.3kb 317.3kb
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### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721/2 "2018-03-06T16:15:50Z")
Have you tried following the steps of migrating the Kibana index as well? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/migrating-6.0-index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/migrating-6.0-index.html)
Cheers
Rashmi
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### Author:  [@cawoodm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cawoodm)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721/3 "2018-03-06T18:19:18Z")
Yes, I did that when we upgraded from 5.5 to 6.1.1 - see our .kibana-6 index mappings:
[https://pastebin.com/Mtj7xLJm](https://pastebin.com/Mtj7xLJm)
Note: we have been running 6.1.1 successfully for some months now.
Are you saying we need to do the same steps when upgrading to 6.2.2? I ask because it says "In order to migrate to Kibana 6, your Kibana index needs to be reindexed." which is not the case with us: we have Kibana 6.
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### Author:  [@rcowart](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcowart)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721/4 "2018-03-07T07:48:02Z")
Just select the Index Patterns that you want to be the default and click on the star to make it the default.
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### Author:  [@cawoodm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cawoodm)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721/5 "2018-03-07T14:08:24Z")
OK, did that. That seems to have solved it.
It's not clear from the docs what a "default index" actually is.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-from-es-kibana-6-1-1-to-6-2-2-no-default-index-pattern/122721/6 "2018-04-04T14:12:43Z")
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