# Create index pattern automatically
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 7, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767 "2017-12-07T23:02:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ramzey1981](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramzey1981)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767/1 "2017-12-07T23:02:12Z")
i have kibana 6.0 installed and am automating it via salt. Is there a way to automatically create the index patterns in kibana?
thanks
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### Author:  [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767/2 "2017-12-08T22:35:08Z")
Hi there,
Please see [Create Indices pattern through commnadline](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-indices-pattern-through-commnadline/54180) (similar question). Does this help you?
Thanks,
CJ
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### Author:  [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767/3 "2017-12-08T23:52:44Z")
I also found this other similar thread: [Kibana 5.0 Ingest API](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-5-0-ingest-api/65043/5)
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### Author:  [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767/4 "2017-12-09T00:05:50Z")
Also: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/11632](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/11632) and [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3709#issuecomment-349335920](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3709#issuecomment-349335920)
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### Author:  [@ramzey1981](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramzey1981)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767/5 "2017-12-11T21:40:29Z")
Thank CJ,
let me check these links out and see if i can come up with a working solution for our implementation using salt stack to automate this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-index-pattern-automatically/110767/6 "2018-01-08T21:40:32Z")
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