# Beats Setup Options

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-setup-options/164335>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-setup-options/164335 "2019-01-15T15:45:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![RhysEvans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rhysevans/32/48235_2.png) [@RhysEvans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RhysEvans)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-setup-options/164335/1 "2019-01-15T15:45:08Z")

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Hi

I am trying to automate the setup of an Elastic Stack using docker. At present most of it is working, however I do have a question around the setup of beats. I am hoping you can help.

Basically I want to automate the setup of the beats, into Kibana and Elasticsearch by automatically loading in the relevant templates, this all works fine if I go the standard route of requiring the Elastic template and the Kibana dashboards in their entirety.

However there are times when I only want the Kibana and Elasticsearch index's to be setup, leaving the dashboards blank

The following options seem to be available for the setup of the beats modules

```
Usage:
 winlogbeat setup [flags]

Flags:
  --dashboards Setup dashboards
  -h, --help help for setup
  --machine-learning Setup machine learning job configurations
  --pipelines Setup Ingest pipelines
  --template Setup index template

```

Template -\> loads the Elasticsearch template  
pipelines -\> loads the relevant pipeline  
dashboards -\> loads Kibana index, visualisations and dashboards

In previous version, I think there was a way to only load the Kibana indexes (I could be wrong here)

Am I missing something ? Is what I am trying to do possible without having to setup the stack, export the stuff from Kibana and create versioned files, inputting via the API ?

The other option I thought of was load everything, then delete all visualisations and dashboards. I havent investigated the feasibility of this

I also have an issue with the winlogbeat, around loading templates etc from linux boxes, but there is a github issue for that

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

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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 12, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-setup-options/164335/2 "2019-02-12T17:45:08Z")

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