# Default index setting gets overwritten in Kibana3. How do I prevent this?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-index-setting-gets-overwritten-in-kibana3-how-do-i-prevent-this/36511
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 7, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-index-setting-gets-overwritten-in-kibana3-how-do-i-prevent-this/36511 "2015-12-07T10:13:43Z")
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### Author:  [@trekr5](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/trekr5)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-index-setting-gets-overwritten-in-kibana3-how-do-i-prevent-this/36511/1 "2015-12-07T10:13:44Z")
Hello,
My environment at work is Chef, Elasticsearch and Kibana 3.
I have a situation whereby the default index pattern is [logstash-]YYYY.MM.DD. However I've created a new index pattern named [application-log-]YYYY.MM.DD and want my Kibana3 to use this as the default index pattern.
However when I set this up in Kibana3 (Configure dashboard \> index \> index settings \> and put in the new pattern index pattern, [application-log-]YYYY.MM.DD
), everytime a chef run occurs, this gets overwritten and it is now set back to [logstash-]YYYY.MM.DD.
Where do I set this up to ensure that the new index pattern pattern is used as the default for my Kibana 3 dashboard so that it doesn't get overwritten?
BTW, the new index pattern exists in Elasticsearch and works so I do have indices being created using it.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-index-setting-gets-overwritten-in-kibana3-how-do-i-prevent-this/36511/2 "2015-12-08T03:44:43Z")
This sounds like a Chef problem, why is it over writing on every run?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-index-setting-gets-overwritten-in-kibana3-how-do-i-prevent-this/36511/3 "2017-07-06T14:07:20Z")