# Default kibana dashboards with custom index name

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-kibana-dashboards-with-custom-index-name/205208>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** beats-module\
**Created:** [October 25, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-kibana-dashboards-with-custom-index-name/205208 "2019-10-25T08:34:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![karthiknpy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karthiknpy/32/53587_2.png) [@karthiknpy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karthiknpy)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-kibana-dashboards-with-custom-index-name/205208/1 "2019-10-25T08:34:40Z")

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Hi Team,

I'm bit new to ELK stack. I enjoy learning it. I'm running on ELK 7.3.0 I have a question here.

1. I have installed winlogbeat on the production server as well as the test server.

2. I'm sending logs to logstash not directly to elasticsearch and writing it to custom indices  
"test-winlogs-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}" and "prod-winlogs-%{+YYYY.MM.dd"

I have loaded the dashboards from ./winlogbeat.ps1 setup --dashboards

Is there anyway to make the default kibana dashboards identify the customnamed indices and populate visualization from them ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards  
Karthik.K

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**Author:** ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-kibana-dashboards-with-custom-index-name/205208/2 "2019-10-25T18:50:04Z")

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Hi Karthik,

You have to manually change the index pattern in the dashboard JSON files.

Try this:  
Export the saved objects as JSON from Kibana and edit the index pattern in the files. Then use the Import button in Saved Objects to import your modified files.

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.3/managing-saved-objects.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/7.3/managing-saved-objects.html)

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**Author:** ![karthiknpy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karthiknpy/32/53587_2.png) [@karthiknpy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karthiknpy)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-kibana-dashboards-with-custom-index-name/205208/3 "2019-11-08T12:24:34Z")

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Hi Nickpeihl,

Thanks will try this and let you know.

Cheers  
Karthik.K

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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:** [December 6, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-kibana-dashboards-with-custom-index-name/205208/4 "2019-12-06T12:24:35Z")

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