# When I installed kibana ! I found several indexes of the unknown:

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-i-installed-kibana-i-found-several-indexes-of-the-unknown/63012>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 14, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-i-installed-kibana-i-found-several-indexes-of-the-unknown/63012 "2016-10-14T01:46:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![wanglifengwf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@wanglifengwf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wanglifengwf)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-i-installed-kibana-i-found-several-indexes-of-the-unknown/63012/1 "2016-10-14T01:46:05Z")

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When I installed kibana ! I found several indexes of the unknown:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/6f517d5e6d409500a8dc3679127dab91323a003c.png)

who can ask me , What this?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2016, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-i-installed-kibana-i-found-several-indexes-of-the-unknown/63012/2 "2016-10-14T08:05:52Z")

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It's probably something making a call to ES for a URL that contains that, and so ES thinks it's an index creation request and creates them.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/when-i-installed-kibana-i-found-several-indexes-of-the-unknown/63012/3 "2017-07-06T13:36:38Z")

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