# Why I can't create topic here

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-i-cant-create-topic-here/241074>\
**Category:** Meta Elastic\
**Created:** [July 14, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-i-cant-create-topic-here/241074 "2020-07-14T07:25:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_Liu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_liu/32/47533_2.png) [@Alex\_Liu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Liu)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-i-cant-create-topic-here/241074/1 "2020-07-14T07:25:10Z")

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why this button is gray out?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/7/27afab6963f62b7f898cd0c244b222da32cbfb1e.png)

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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:** [July 14, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-i-cant-create-topic-here/241074/2 "2020-07-14T07:30:16Z")

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Per the [About text](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elastic-stack-category/235254) for that category;

> Please post your your topic under the relevant product category.

So you need to create your topic under Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats or Logstash 🙂

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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:** [August 11, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-i-cant-create-topic-here/241074/3 "2020-08-11T07:30:32Z")

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