# Create New Index in Kibana without restarting logstash (5.6.2)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-index-in-kibana-without-restarting-logstash-5-6-2/108475>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 20, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-index-in-kibana-without-restarting-logstash-5-6-2/108475 "2017-11-20T23:37:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![shashwat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@shashwat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shashwat)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-index-in-kibana-without-restarting-logstash-5-6-2/108475/1 "2017-11-20T23:37:53Z")

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Hi,

I need to ask a very basic question. Whenever I update my logsatash configuration file, I restart it to get the changes reflected in Kibana. For example, when I add new index in logstash.conf file to read some new logs.

Is it possible that I introduce changes in logstash.conf and I will not have to restart it to get my chnges reflected in Kibana?

I tried but my index is not created in Kibana. Any other way of doing it because when this runs in production environment , it may not be possible to restart the services.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-index-in-kibana-without-restarting-logstash-5-6-2/108475/2 "2017-11-20T23:44:41Z")

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Take a look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.0/reloading-config.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.0/reloading-config.html) 🙂

There's also [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.0/logstash-centralized-pipeline-management.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.0/logstash-centralized-pipeline-management.html), which is super dooper awesome 😃

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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:** [December 18, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-index-in-kibana-without-restarting-logstash-5-6-2/108475/3 "2017-12-18T23:45:21Z")

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