# "Validation Failed: 1: template is missing;
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validation-failed-1-template-is-missing/70180
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 29, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validation-failed-1-template-is-missing/70180 "2016-12-29T04:27:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@aliahsan81](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aliahsan81)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validation-failed-1-template-is-missing/70180/1 "2016-12-29T04:27:15Z")
I am new to ELK, I am copying existing logstash-\* template and making new one with an other name. After changing template name when i PUT template back it give me following error
I am using ELK 5.1.1
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/\_template/example.com?pretty -d @logstash.json
{
"[example.com](http://example.com)" : {
"order" : 0,
"version" : 50001,
"template" : "example.com-_",
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"refresh\_interval" : "5s"
}
},
"mappings" : {
"default" : {
"dynamic\_templates" : [
{
"message\_field" : {
"path\_match" : "message",
"mapping" : {
"norms" : false,
"type" : "text"
},
"match\_mapping\_type" : "string"
}
},
{
"string\_fields" : {
"mapping" : {
"norms" : false,
"type" : "text",
"fields" : {
"keyword" : {
"type" : "keyword"
}
}
},
"match\_mapping\_type" : "string",
"match" : "_"
}
}
],
"\_all" : {
"norms" : false,
"enabled" : true
},
"properties" : {
"@timestamp" : {
"include\_in\_all" : false,
"type" : "date"
},
"geoip" : {
"dynamic" : true,
"properties" : {
"ip" : {
"type" : "ip"
},
"latitude" : {
"type" : "half\_float"
},
"location" : {
"type" : "geo\_point"
},
"longitude" : {
"type" : "half\_float"
}
}
},
"@version" : {
"include\_in\_all" : false,
"type" : "keyword"
}
}
}
},
"aliases" : { }
}
}
# Error
{
"error" : {
"root\_cause" : [
{
"type" : "action\_request\_validation\_exception",
"reason" : "Validation Failed: 1: template is missing;"
}
],
"type" : "action\_request\_validation\_exception",
"reason" : "Validation Failed: 1: template is missing;"
},
"status" : 400
}
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2016, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validation-failed-1-template-is-missing/70180/2 "2016-12-29T09:07:24Z")
Hey,
please use proper formatting in your messages. This is pretty hard to read.
When you compare your JSON with the one mentioned in [the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/indices-templates.html#getting), you will notice, that yours is missing a field called `template`, which defines the indices this template should be assigned to. That's what is meant with the failed validation.
--Alex
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### Author:  [@aliahsan81](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aliahsan81)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validation-failed-1-template-is-missing/70180/3 "2016-12-29T09:34:30Z")
Thanks I have removed this part that fixed the issue
\<
{
"[example.com](http://example.com)" : {
"order" : 0,
"version" : 50001,
/\>
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/validation-failed-1-template-is-missing/70180/4 "2017-01-26T09:34:49Z")
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