# Filebeat how to set a custom indice **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 25, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-how-to-set-a-custom-indice/312969 "2022-08-25T22:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dimmthewitted1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dimmthewitted1/32/110086_2.png) [@dimmthewitted1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dimmthewitted1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-how-to-set-a-custom-indice/312969/1 "2022-08-25T22:19:10Z")
I have never been more frustrated in a product than I am with the ELK stack. Its needlessly complicated, feels almost intentional as if to push people towards Fleet and Elastic Cloud. I have given up on the Apache integration. Given up on logstash. I finally have a dedicated linux install showing up in kibana with only the Filebeat service dumping to external output.elasticsearch. My Apache logformat is pretty common: LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %q %\>s %b" common but it is dumping into Elastic as one message. I tried to enable filebeat setup to set the index / dash but I get an error that my kibana is localhost despite my config point to Kibana Host by IP and no localhost anywhere in config. Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET request to /api/status fails: fail to execute the HTTP GET request: Get [http://localhost:5601/api/status:](http://localhost:5601/api/status:) dial tcp [::1]:5601: connect: connection refused. Response: . Exiting: fail to create the Kibana loader: Error creating Kibana client: Error creating Kibana client: fail to get the Kibana version: HTTP GET request to /api/status fails: fail to execute the HTTP GET request: Get [http://localhost:5601/api/status:](http://localhost:5601/api/status:) filebeat.yml: setup.kibana: hosts: ["10.0.0.5:5601"] I get around this by declaring the host: filebeat setup -e -E setup.kibana.host=10.0.0.5:5601 Loaded index template Loaded dashboards Loaded machine learning job configurations Still ssl\_access\_logs lines show only as single message field. I tried enabling the Apache module but it added nothing. I have and index called Weblog that has the patterns brought over from another setup. I want to change the filebeat to point to that index. Output.elasticsearch: #Array of hosts to connect to. hosts: ["10.0.0.5:9200"] #TRYING TO SET A CUSTOM INDEX **index: ["weblog"]** ERROR instance/beat.go:906 Exiting: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing 'output.elasticsearch.index' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') Exiting: can not convert 'object' into 'string' accessing 'output.elasticsearch.index' (source:'/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml') How do I point filebeat to a set index ? ---
**Author:** ![dimmthewitted1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dimmthewitted1/32/110086_2.png) [@dimmthewitted1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dimmthewitted1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-how-to-set-a-custom-indice/312969/2 "2022-08-25T22:48:35Z")
I removed the brackets on index and now I get a new error Output.elasticsearch: #Array of hosts to connect to. hosts: ["10.0.0.5:9200"] #TRYING TO SET A CUSTOM INDEX **index: weblog** ERROR instance/beat.go:906 Exiting: setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern have to be set if index name is modified Exiting: setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern have to be set if index name is modified ---
**Author:** ![dimmthewitted1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dimmthewitted1/32/110086_2.png) [@dimmthewitted1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dimmthewitted1)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-how-to-set-a-custom-indice/312969/3 "2022-08-25T23:13:15Z")
I added the lines for template and it seems to work. now it goes to my correct index weblog where my patterns are recognized for each of the log columns. output.elasticsearch: hosts: [(ip):9200"] index: weblog setup.template.name: "elasticissh!t" setup.template.pattern: "elasticissh!t\*" shame I can't get the apache dashboards from the integration. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-how-to-set-a-custom-indice/312969/4 "2022-09-22T23:13:43Z")
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