# Filebat - Create a custom index on elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741 "2019-09-03T00:04:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@jaderolyver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaderolyver)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/1 "2019-09-03T00:04:27Z")
Please someone here understand what is happen with my config, my filebeat doenst create index with my custom name. When i run the command filebeat setup the filebeat communicate with my elastic and create a index default filebeat.
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
enabled: true
paths:
- /var/log/\*.log
setup.template.enabled: false
setup.template.name: 'srvprod\_beat'
setup.template.pattern: 'srvprod\_beat-\*'
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ["srvelastic:9200"]
username: "user-elastic"
password: "MyPassWord"
index: 'srvprod\_beat-%{[agent.version]}-%{+dd.MM.yyyy}'
My filebeat, elastic-cluster, kibana is 7.3 all Linux.
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### Author:  [@Anantha\_Padmanabhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anantha_Padmanabhan)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/2 "2019-09-11T19:09:15Z")
Even I too face similar issue, is there any better documentation or anyone who can help on setting a custom index name?
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### Author:  [@daniel\_a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel_a)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/3 "2019-09-11T21:49:20Z")
I have the same issue. Did you fix it yet? 🙄
If you don't specify either an index template name nor its pattern name, you'll get an error (see below), but even if you do, the default template filebeat-7.3.1 is still getting loaded, 🤔 why!
`Exiting: setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern have to be set if index name is modified`
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### Author:  [@Anantha\_Padmanabhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anantha_Padmanabhan)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/4 "2019-09-12T07:02:06Z")
If i mention setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern i dont get any error but still my index name remains filebeat-version-date.
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### Author:  [@Himanshu\_Rajput](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Himanshu_Rajput)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/5 "2019-09-12T07:18:44Z")
Add the following configuration to filebeat
**setup.ilm.enabled: false**
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### Author:  [@daniel\_a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel_a)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/6 "2019-09-12T16:59:32Z")
This line totally did the trick! Thanks!
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### Author:  [@daniel\_a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel_a)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/7 "2019-09-12T17:00:14Z")
@Anantha_Padmanabhan It's not that, I had that setup already. It was **setup.ilm.enabled: false**
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### Author:  [@daniel\_a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel_a)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/8 "2019-09-12T18:22:44Z")
@Anantha_Padmanabhan, it's a known issue
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### Author:  [@jaderolyver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaderolyver)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/9 "2019-09-12T18:44:51Z")
Yep I did this but when you disable the ILM your filebeat doesn't auto create Lifecycle policy.
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### Author:  [@Anantha\_Padmanabhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anantha_Padmanabhan)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/10 "2019-09-13T05:23:47Z")
yeah i too fixed it by doing the same temporarily..
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### Author:  [@daniel\_a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel_a)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/11 "2019-09-13T17:16:51Z")
It's an open issue since April, 2019.
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### Author:  [@abhishek\_kumar3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhishek_kumar3)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/12 "2019-09-24T06:27:47Z")
@daniel_a Please use
`.\filebeat.exe setup --index-management`
This will set the index.
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### Author:  [@daniel\_a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/daniel_a)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/13 "2019-09-24T19:30:58Z")
> [@Himanshu\_Rajput](#):
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> setup.ilm.enabled: false
@abhishek_kumar3 Do I still need to include **setup.ilm.enabled: false**? If not, this would solve the issue I think with not having ILM enabled, right?
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### Author:  [@abhishek\_kumar3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abhishek_kumar3)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/14 "2019-09-25T07:10:20Z")
@daniel_a Yes, ilm is required once while setting up the index in the elastic search I think. For sending the data to a different index pattern, you may use that command I mentioned.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebat-create-a-custom-index-on-elasticsearch/197741/15 "2019-10-23T07:10:34Z")
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