# Filebeat-\* in Filebeat, Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-filebeat-kibana/112104>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 16, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-filebeat-kibana/112104 "2017-12-16T20:44:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-filebeat-kibana/112104/1 "2017-12-16T20:44:48Z")

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I'm new to ELK and going through ELK documentation and setup i got confused:

what is the difference between "template": "filebeat-\* " in /etc/filebeat/filebeat.template.json,  
"index =\> ["filebeat-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"]" in /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf  
and "filebeat-\* " in Management -\> Kibana -\> Indices (app/kibana#/management/kibana/indices/filebeat-\*?\_g=()&\_a=(tab:indexedFields)) ?  
What each of above is responsible for?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-in-filebeat-kibana/112104/2 "2018-01-13T20:44:49Z")

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