# Creating Dashboard according to beat.name or hostname?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-according-to-beat-name-or-hostname/129438
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 25, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-according-to-beat-name-or-hostname/129438 "2018-04-25T08:57:11Z")
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### Author: ![jen-huang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jen-huang/32/74327_2.png) [@jen-huang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jen-huang)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-dashboard-according-to-beat-name-or-hostname/129438/2 "2018-04-25T18:11:26Z")

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Metricbeat comes packaged with example Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and searches for visualizing Metricbeat data in Kibana. Set up instructions:

> **[Load Kibana dashboards | Metricbeat Reference \[8.11\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/load-kibana-dashboards.html)**

You can use the example Metricbeat dashboards as a starting point:

> **[Metricbeat quick start: installation and configuration | Metricbeat Reference...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-installation-configuration.html)**

Then, you can view the dashboard for a single Metricbeat host by opening the base dashboard (with all hosts) and click **Add a filter**. Choose `hostname`, `is`, enter the hostname of the Metricbeat host you want to view, and **Save**.

If you don't want to change the filter every time to view a different host, you can create a dashboard for each host by clicking **Clone**. You may want to modify the name of the cloned dashboard to include the name of the corresponding Metricbeat host. Modify the `hostname` filter for each dashboard as needed.

Alternatively, you could also split up Metricbeat indices by host, which will avoid the need to add a filter to the dashboard, but may be inefficient:

> [@Multiple metricbeat index for each host](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-metricbeat-index-for-each-host/117674):
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> Currently i am sending metricbeat data from all the server directly to elastichost:9200. This way metricbeat data from all the server sends data to single metricbeat-dataIs it possible to create separate index for metricbeat data from each server. Current metricbeat configuration is like below. metricbeat.yml: metricbeat.modules: #------------------------------- System Module ------------------------------- module: system metricsets: cpu load filesystem fsstat memory network process enab…

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