# Changing xpack monitoring index

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-xpack-monitoring-index/309422
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [July 12, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-xpack-monitoring-index/309422 "2022-07-12T13:02:06Z")
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### Author: ![Adriann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adriann/32/77780_2.png) [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-xpack-monitoring-index/309422/1 "2022-07-12T13:02:06Z")

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Hello,

I want to lower the number of indices generated by monitoring modules from filebeat and metricbeat. That monitors logstash, beats, elasticserach and kibana.

I would like these indices to be monthly indices.

When I use i.e kibana module for metricbeat in exchange of kibana-xpack module, I can see an index in the elk but no data are displayed in kibana monitoring UI.

Is it possible to achieve what I want using kibana-xpack module? Or how to point where monitoring logs should be checked?

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### Author: ![Adriann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adriann/32/77780_2.png) [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2022, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-xpack-monitoring-index/309422/2 "2022-07-27T15:42:01Z")

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Usually when nobody answers that is an excellent indicator that what I am asking about is in the documentation. This time is no different.

After playing with metricbeat kibana module and changing the index pattern to

> .monitoring-kibana-7-mb-\*

I still did not see data from kibana module. So i rollback to kibana-xpack. I used reindex function to combine all daily indices to 1 index. I will now just write some short script that will run daily and manage everything.

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### Author: ![Adriann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adriann/32/77780_2.png) [@Adriann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriann)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-xpack-monitoring-index/309422/3 "2022-08-03T13:27:10Z")

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Please, can someone explain to me why when I use kibana module for metricbeat instead of kibana-xpack  
and I set the index pattern for that module to .monitoring-kibana-7-mbb-{+xxxx.MM} I don't see data from that index pattern even from the discovery dashboard?

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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: [August 31, 2022, 3:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-xpack-monitoring-index/309422/4 "2022-08-31T15:27:11Z")

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