# Any work arounds for this? - issue 21232

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-work-arounds-for-this-issue-21232/258173>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-work-arounds-for-this-issue-21232/258173 "2020-12-09T18:38:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![madhan0618](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@madhan0618](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/madhan0618)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-work-arounds-for-this-issue-21232/258173/1 "2020-12-09T18:38:21Z")

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> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/21232>
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> There are two parts that are not being updated when setting a custom index pattern via setup.dashboards.index.
> Timelion expressions containing index patterns...

I am running into this issue, I create custom indexes and when trying to import metricbeat dashboards for kafka, it is not working correctly.

i have tried to edit the JSON and edit every reference of metricbeat-\* with myindex\* and importing it and it doesnt work.

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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:** [January 6, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/any-work-arounds-for-this-issue-21232/258173/2 "2021-01-06T18:38:35Z")

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