# Different index name for different filebeat instances

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-index-name-for-different-filebeat-instances/172874>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [March 18, 2019, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-index-name-for-different-filebeat-instances/172874 "2019-03-18T23:49:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-index-name-for-different-filebeat-instances/172874/2 "2019-03-18T23:51:47Z")

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[Using Environment variable in ES index name](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-environment-variable-in-es-index-name/172862) should be what you want 🙂

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