# Dashboard mix indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-mix-indices/161378>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 18, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-mix-indices/161378 "2018-12-18T17:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![aviator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@aviator](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviator)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-mix-indices/161378/1 "2018-12-18T17:01:24Z")

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Hi

I have the stock Metricbeat System dashboard for a host running very well but would like to add a logstash based visualization that presents java heap memory stats. I can see that the visualizations are based on the query for the specific beat.name value and I assume the whole dashboard looks to that data source and so the added visualization using the logstash index never gets populated.

So I have seen a couple of requests for things like nested dashboards, or the ability to change dashboard indices but are there any practical solutions to "mix and match" indices on a dashboard at the moment?  
I guess I could create a java only dashboard and hyperlink to that from the main host dashboard at a push, or would grokking in a field named beat.name with the relevant hostname value work?

Regards

Ed

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**Author:** ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-mix-indices/161378/2 "2018-12-19T21:57:07Z")

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Hi,

You can definitely create a dashboard and add whichever visualizations you want for that particular dashboard which can belong to a single index pattern or multiple indexpatterns.

It does come with some limitations. We cannot choose a indexpattern per visualization in dashboard yet. But that is coming soon.

Does that help?

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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**Author:** ![aviator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@aviator](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviator)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-mix-indices/161378/3 "2018-12-20T09:13:50Z")

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Many thanks and yes it does, looks like I can leave the sample dashboards in place and then create a new dashboard dedicated to the various visualizations that can contain mixed indexpatterns with a hyperlink to join them, going forward the indexpattern per visualization would be the answer but this is the answer for now,

Kind Regards

Ed

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-mix-indices/161378/4 "2019-01-17T09:19:46Z")

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