# Creating \_all index pattern in Kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 13, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967 "2018-07-13T14:52:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@amruth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amruth)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/1 "2018-07-13T14:52:58Z")
Hi,
I've created \_all index pattern in kibana to search for logs across indexes.
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1) So, creating _all index pattern would take extra disk space on ES nodes?
2) And is it a good idea to create such index?
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Please let me know if there are any underlying issues which could effect performance.
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### Author:  [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/2 "2018-07-17T13:15:14Z")
Hi @amruth,
What do you mean exactly? Do you mean you created indices within ES with the [\_all mapping field enabled](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-all-field.html)
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### Author:  [@amruth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amruth)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/3 "2018-07-17T13:36:08Z")
Hi Chris,
I am creating an index pattern in kibana(not in ES)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/4 "2018-07-17T14:22:31Z")
How are you doing that exactly? As far as I'm aware, we do not have a concept of `_all` within Kibana itself - that concept is something that resides within ES.
Can you share some screenshots of what you have within Kibana?
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### Author:  [@amruth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amruth)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/5 "2018-07-17T15:09:38Z")
Please refer [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29671773/query-two-indexes-simultaneously-in-kibana-4)
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### Author:  [@chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisronline)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/6 "2018-07-17T18:14:28Z")
Ah, I'd definitely recommend against that if you're using this for a production environment. It will affect Kibana and ES performance - any visualization/dashboard you load against this index pattern means that Kibana and ES both need to read/process every single index which can easily get out of control.
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### Author:  [@amruth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amruth)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/7 "2018-07-23T15:34:19Z")
Got you. Thanks Chris 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-all-index-pattern-in-kibana/139967/8 "2018-08-20T15:34:24Z")
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