# Custom index not getting created in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-index-not-getting-created-in-kibana/347970>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 25, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-index-not-getting-created-in-kibana/347970 "2023-11-25T09:35:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/custom-index-not-getting-created-in-kibana/347970/4 "2023-11-26T15:44:01Z")

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Follow these instructions [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/8.11/change-index-name.html) (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 uncomment that when you run setup but you MUST comment it back out or it will reload the dashboards every time which takes a very long time and it will look like filebeat is not working ... also on only use that if you plan to reuse a modules dashboards

```auto
filebeat.inputs:
- type: filestream
  id: syslogs
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - /var/log/system.log
filebeat.config.modules:
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
  reload.enabled: false
output.elasticsearch:
  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
  index: "customname-%{[agent.version]}"

setup.template.name: "customname-%{[agent.version]}"
setup.template.pattern: "customname-%{[agent.version]}"
setup.ilm.enabled: true
setup.ilm.policy_name: "customname"
# setup.dashboards.index: "customname-*"

```

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