# Completely lost on kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-lost-on-kibana/377675>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 30, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-lost-on-kibana/377675 "2025-04-30T14:41:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completely-lost-on-kibana/377675/1 "2025-04-30T14:41:30Z")

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Hello, let me explain briefly. I installed Elasticsearch and Kibana on Kali Linux via WSL2 (Windows 10). I have over 200GB of text files that I would like to index (files located in a Kali Linux folder and then in thousands of subfolders).  
I watched tutorials, asked chatGPT, but I don't understand anything. There are 100 different tabs on the Elasticsearch dashboard. It's been two sleepless nights. I've tried everything. I've created my basic index as follows:

filebeat.inputs:

- type: filestream  
id: my-filestream-id  
enabled: true  
paths:
- /home/personne27/AllBddLogs/\*\*/\*.txt  
scan\_frequency: 10s  
ignore\_older: 0  
clean\_inactive: 0s

And even then, it won't transfer the files. I don't understand anything about searching in it. There's a dashboard, but how do I specifically search for things like emails? chatGPT seems to be failing to help me so I'm coming here as a last resort, thanks in advance, best regards.