# Why we can't enable Machine Learning in system indices?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-we-cant-enable-machine-learning-in-system-indices/162943>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-machine-learning\
**Created:** [January 4, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-we-cant-enable-machine-learning-in-system-indices/162943 "2019-01-04T11:17:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![DineshTripathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@DineshTripathi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshTripathi)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-we-cant-enable-machine-learning-in-system-indices/162943/1 "2019-01-04T11:17:04Z")

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I am trying to understand what is the reason behind not allowing ML on system indices ?

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**Author:** ![richcollier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/richcollier/32/115035_2.png) [@richcollier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richcollier)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-we-cant-enable-machine-learning-in-system-indices/162943/2 "2019-01-05T14:23:48Z")

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This is not true - ML can be applied to ANY index. If you don't see the index you want in the ML UI, make sure you create a Kibana index pattern for that index (and set the option to include system indices):

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/1/01905ca813f42ca251bc7e10331c0854b7e3ea6b.png)

Then create your ML job:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/6/96e78cf5b23152f4490e80f03bdcbd527266bcb8.png)

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**Author:** ![DineshTripathi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@DineshTripathi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshTripathi)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-we-cant-enable-machine-learning-in-system-indices/162943/3 "2019-01-05T15:06:08Z")

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thanks @richcollier this helps me.

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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:** [February 2, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-we-cant-enable-machine-learning-in-system-indices/162943/4 "2019-02-02T15:06:10Z")

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