# Why index no automatic create

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-index-no-automatic-create/122628>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 6, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-index-no-automatic-create/122628 "2018-03-06T02:33:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Champion\_Xie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/champion_xie/32/71770_2.png) [@Champion\_Xie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Champion_Xie)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-index-no-automatic-create/122628/1 "2018-03-06T02:33:37Z")

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all software version is 6.2.0  
the index logtash-webnginx-2018.03.05 create success ,but today index not automatic create ,this is why?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-index-no-automatic-create/122628/2 "2018-03-06T02:34:14Z")

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Is there anything in the Elasticsearch logs?

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**Author:** ![Champion\_Xie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/champion_xie/32/71770_2.png) [@Champion\_Xie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Champion_Xie)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-index-no-automatic-create/122628/3 "2018-03-06T02:36:09Z")

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[2018-03-06T10:01:49,960][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Could not index event to Elasticsearch. {:status=\>404, :action=\>["index", {:\_id=\>nil, :\_index=\>"logstash-webnginx-2018.03.06", :\_type=\>"doc", :\_routing=\>nil}, #LogStash::Event:0x1f5ffbd7], :response=\>{"index"=\>{"\_index"=\>"logstash-webnginx-2018.03.06", "\_type"=\>"doc", "\_id"=\>nil, "status"=\>404, "error"=\>{"type"=\>"index\_not\_found\_exception", "reason"=\>"no such index and [action.auto\_create\_index] ([.security,.monitoring\*,.watches,.triggered\_watches,.watcher-history\*]) doesn't match", "index\_uuid"=\>"_na_", "index"=\>"logstash-webnginx-2018.03.06"}}}}

i have already in elasticsearch.yml add content "action.auto\_create\_index: .security,.monitoring\*,.watches,.triggered\_watches,.watcher-‌​history\*"

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-index-no-automatic-create/122628/4 "2018-03-06T13:27:31Z")

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> [@Champion\_Xie](#):
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> i have already in elasticsearch.yml add content "action.auto\_create\_index: .security,.monitoring\*,.watches,.triggered\_watches,.watcher-‌​history\*"

That means that only the indices listed can get created automatically, and as a pattern matching the index you are trying to write to (`logstash-webnginx-2018.03.06`) is not included in that list, Elasticsearch can not create the index.

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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:** [April 3, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-index-no-automatic-create/122628/5 "2018-04-03T13:27:37Z")

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