# Can't specify custom index name in Filebeat
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-specify-custom-index-name-in-filebeat/204643
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 22, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-specify-custom-index-name-in-filebeat/204643 "2019-10-22T12:35:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Devopsio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Devopsio)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-specify-custom-index-name-in-filebeat/204643/1 "2019-10-22T12:35:34Z")
Hi. I'm struggling to separate log inputs by using indices in Filebeat, which sends its data to elasticsearch from docker containers. It creates an index with a default name. I tried to use setup.ilm.enabed: false to disable lifecycle management and it didn't help. What am I doing wrong? My ELK stack is 7.3 and I can't use logstash.
setup.ilm.enabled: false
#============================= Docker ========================================
filebeat.autodiscover:
providers:
- type: docker
templates:
- condition:
regexp:
docker.container.image: myapp
config:
- type: container
paths:
- /var/lib/docker/containers/${data.docker.container.id}/\*.log
#============================= Filebeat modules ===============================
filebeat.config.modules:
path: ${path.config}/modules.d/\*.yml
reload.enabled: true
#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================
setup.template.settings:
index.number\_of\_shards: 1
#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ["elksrv:9200"]
ilm.enabled: false
protocol: "http"
username: "elastic"
password: "changeme"
indices:
- index: "myapp"
when.contains:
docker.container.image: "myapp"
setup.template.name: "notif5"
setup.template.pattern: "notif5-\*"
processors:
- add\_host\_metadata: ~
- add\_cloud\_metadata: ~
- add\_docker\_metadata: ~
(commented parts of the conf file is omitted)
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### Author:  [@pmercado](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmercado)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-specify-custom-index-name-in-filebeat/204643/2 "2019-10-23T09:00:05Z")
can you re-post using pre-formatted text to help reading the config file?
also the issue is not clear to me, are you having problems creating a custom index name with filebeat, or having issues disabling or enabling ILM?
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### Author:  [@Devopsio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Devopsio)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-specify-custom-index-name-in-filebeat/204643/3 "2019-10-23T09:04:09Z")
Yes, I'm having problems creating a custom index with filebeat. To do that I need to disable ILM via filebeat config and for some reason, I can't.
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### Author:  [@faec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/faec)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-specify-custom-index-name-in-filebeat/204643/4 "2019-10-23T15:47:30Z")
For disabling ILM, one thing I notice is that your config file includes `ilm.enabled: false` when it should probably be `setup.ilm.enabled: false`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-specify-custom-index-name-in-filebeat/204643/5 "2019-11-20T15:47:39Z")
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