Creating elasticsearch index mandatory?

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Hello All,

I have a ELK setup 'out of the box' . My goal is to parse apache logs via
logstash and display it in kibana.

I would like to know if it is mandatory to create an index on elasticsearch
so as to store the result from apache logs(I have logstash.conf
output=>elasticsearch)

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By default, Elasticsearch automatically creates an index if a document is
being added and the index doesn't already exist.

Logstash automatically specifies a time-based index with day precision for
each log entry. In other words:

logstash-2014.07.28
logstash-2014.07.29
logstash-2014.07.30
logstash-2014.07.31
logstash-2014.08.01
logstash-2014.08.02
logstash-2014.08.03
logstash-2014.08.04

And Kibana's time picker automatically assumes the logstash defaults, so
you should be good to go.

One thing that initially tripped me up, and might trip you up: When I first
ran Kibana I didn't see any of my data. But that's because I had loaded
some test data into it, and the default time picker only went back a few
minutes into the past.

Brian

On Monday, August 4, 2014 4:03:05 PM UTC-4, Acche Din wrote:

Hello All,

I have a ELK setup 'out of the box' . My goal is to parse apache logs via
logstash and display it in kibana.

I would like to know if it is mandatory to create an index on
elasticsearch so as to store the result from apache logs(I have
logstash.conf output=>elasticsearch)

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