# Changing index for dashboard

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-for-dashboard/203016
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 10, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-for-dashboard/203016 "2019-10-10T12:26:20Z")
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### Author: ![baumi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@baumi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/baumi)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2019, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-for-dashboard/203016/1 "2019-10-10T12:26:20Z")

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Hi all,

recently i added a second input for filebeat. First I was just using syslog and now I am also using netflow as an input.

First I just had one index which called `filebeat-*` but now with my second input I changed the indicies. For my syslog input i created the index `rpz-*` and my netflow index is called `netflow-*`. Everything is working fine, my logstash pipeline is seperating the data and sending it correctly to kibana. But when I try to use the netflow dashboard, kibana is still looking for the filebeat-\* index. I already reloaded the dashboards with `filebeat --setup dashboards` but it is not working as you can see in the screenshot

 ![grafik](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/7/176fe3ef60f96cf4073ec6f881ed1578b3494195.png)

How can I change the index for the dashboards?

Thank you and best regards!

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### Author: ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-for-dashboard/203016/2 "2019-10-17T19:03:33Z")

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Hmm, not sure how to adjust it using Filebeat configuration but I'm sure there is (you could check in the Beats discuss forums).

As far as changing the index patterns in Kibana, the easiest way is probably to export all of your saved objects you want associated with the `netflow-*` index patterns, then open the export in a text editor, find all the references to the `filebeat-*` index pattern ID, and change them to the ID of your `netflow-*` index pattern. Then, delete the saved objects in Kibana and re-import the export file.

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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: [November 14, 2019, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-for-dashboard/203016/3 "2019-11-14T19:03:36Z")

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