Custom Index Creation Issue

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

@Mani_Manikanta

  output.elasticsearch.index: "elk-%{[agent.version]}"
  setup.template.name: "elk-%{[agent.version]}"
  setup.template.pattern: "elk-%{[agent.version]}"
  setup.ilm.overwrite: true

These are not indented correctly and there is a error in 7.17 docs.... the 8.11 docs are correct

These need to be all the way to the left / no indent

output.elasticsearch.index: "customname-%{[agent.version]}"
setup.template.name: "customname-%{[agent.version]}"
setup.template.pattern: "customname-%{[agent.version]}"

Also if you are not using logstash then those configuration do no matter...

If later you want to "passthrough " logstash then we can get that right

I think I went to through this in a little more detail here

Custom index not getting created in Kibana

Follow these instructions here (there is a bug in the 8.5. docs) Ok try this.... this is a complete working sample This will setup the template and ILM policy with your custom name, where you can control the daily rollover. Do not try to create a data stream with the -%{+yyyy.MM.dd} syntax ... just go to the new ILM policy and set the rollover daily and the backing index will roll over daily... example in this case .ds-customname-8.5.3-2023.11.26-000001 The commented-out last line you can u…