# Automatically creating index in Kibana5
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-creating-index-in-kibana5/70920
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 9, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-creating-index-in-kibana5/70920 "2017-01-09T06:48:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mgz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mgz)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-creating-index-in-kibana5/70920/1 "2017-01-09T06:48:23Z")
Is there a way to create index in Kibana 5 automatically? Currently it's manual process to create index in Kibana. Does Kibana have any API to allow creating index automatically?
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### Author:  [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-creating-index-in-kibana5/70920/2 "2017-01-09T17:24:03Z")
Kibana doesn't have an API or a way to do it automatically currently. The code that sets things up is [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/core_plugins/kibana/public/management/sections/indices/_create.js#L56)
Kibana pulls down fields in the index pattern from elasticsearch, and then creates a new document at `/.kibana/index-pattern`.
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### Author:  [@mgz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mgz)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-creating-index-in-kibana5/70920/3 "2017-01-10T00:00:06Z")
Thanks jbudz for your reply. I hope Kibana team could create a web service API to allow creating index automatically.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-creating-index-in-kibana5/70920/4 "2017-02-07T00:00:12Z")
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