# Alias not created based on index name - beats output
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-not-created-based-on-index-name-beats-output/210230
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 2, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-not-created-based-on-index-name-beats-output/210230 "2019-12-02T18:48:09Z")
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### Author:  [@sgreszcz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sgreszcz)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-not-created-based-on-index-name-beats-output/210230/1 "2019-12-02T18:48:09Z")
Hi there,
I'm trying to make a custom ILM and Index Template for my incoming filebeat and metricbeat shippers.
I've got it now so that the beats send to a custom index in ElasticSearch called "filebeat" and "metricbeat". I was hoping that the Aliases would have been created to point to the new index names and not "metricbeat-7.4.2" and "filebeat-7.4.2". Do you know how I can get this alias to link the new indices that I created with the index used for ILM?
```auto
"filebeat-7.4.2-2019.12.02-000001" : {
"aliases" : {
"filebeat-7.4.2" : {
"is_write_index" : true
}
}
},
"metricbeat-7.4.2-2019.12.02-000001" : {
"aliases" : {
"metricbeat-7.4.2" : {
"is_write_index" : true
}
}
},
```
My beats config is:
```auto
output.elasticsearch:
index: "filebeat"
setup.template.name: "filebeat"
setup.template.pattern: "filebeat-*"
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-not-created-based-on-index-name-beats-output/210230/2 "2019-12-30T18:48:13Z")
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