# 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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**Post date:** [March 21, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-index-name-for-different-filebeat-instances/172874/3 "2019-03-21T01:27:33Z")

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@warkolm  
Can you please look at this error i'm getting.

> [@File beat throwing warning for custom index pattern](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-beat-throwing-warning-for-custom-index-pattern/173201):
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> Hi I am seeing this weird issue on my file beat module 6.6.2 . When I have default configuration in the filebeat.yml and iis module enabled. The file beat sends logs fine but when I try to add an index pattern it is throwing error in logs and not sendiing logs to elastic search. Please let me know what is wrong with my configuration. Here is my configuration. #==================== Elasticsearch template setting ========================== setup.template.name: 'filebeat-win' setup.template.p…

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