# File template overriding not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-template-overriding-not-working/66957
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [November 23, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-template-overriding-not-working/66957 "2016-11-23T08:45:19Z")
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### Author:  [@kozdincer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kozdincer)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-template-overriding-not-working/66957/1 "2016-11-23T08:45:19Z")
Hi,
I 've change default filebeat-template to make "message" property type as "object".
But not shown as "object" in index. Shown as default "string".
Log says;
"2016/11/21 15:43:30.532659 output.go:164: INFO Loading template enabled. Trying to load template: /etc/filebeat/filebeat.template.json
2016/11/21 15:43:30.595836 output.go:172: INFO Existing template will be overwritten, as overwrite is enabled.
2016/11/21 15:43:30.919118 client.go:266: INFO Elasticsearch template with name 'filebeat' loaded"
Any idea?
`# cat /etc/filebeat/filebeat.template.json`
{
"mappings": {
"_default_": {
"\_all": {
"enabled": true,
"norms": {
"enabled": false
}
},
"dynamic\_templates": [
{
"template1": {
"mapping": {
"doc\_values": true,
"ignore\_above": 1024,
"index": "not\_analyzed",
"type": "{dynamic\_type}"
},
"match": "_"
}
}
],
"properties": {
"@timestamp": {
"type": "date"
},
"message": {
"type": "object"
},
"offset": {
"type": "long",
"doc\_values": "true"
}
}
}
},
"settings": {
"index.refresh\_interval": "5s"
},
"template": "filebeat-_"
}
`# cat /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml | grep template: -A 10`
template:
# Template name. By default the template name is filebeat.
name: "filebeat"
# Path to template file
path: "/etc/filebeat/filebeat.template.json"
# Overwrite existing template
overwrite: true
---
### Author:  [@kozdincer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kozdincer)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-template-overriding-not-working/66957/2 "2016-11-23T09:15:21Z")
I found the issue.
in last line of template file, template propery value did not matching with my index name.
thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-template-overriding-not-working/66957/3 "2016-12-21T09:15:21Z")
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