# Heartbeat to Logstash disappears in Elasticsearch (Indices)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-logstash-disappears-in-elasticsearch-indices/241359>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-logstash-disappears-in-elasticsearch-indices/241359 "2020-07-15T20:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asinus1223](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@Asinus1223](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Asinus1223)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-logstash-disappears-in-elasticsearch-indices/241359/1 "2020-07-15T20:08:06Z")

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How can I get Heartbeat to output to Logstash where I can manipulate it some? Right now the only way I can anything to appear in Elasticsearch/Kibana is to output directly to Elasticsearch and keep the default index name.

I guess what I really need is a gentle introduction to Elasticsearch indices. Will I have to write my own schema every time I change the index name?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-logstash-disappears-in-elasticsearch-indices/241359/2 "2020-07-16T00:20:20Z")

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What do you see happening if you send to Logstash?

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**Author:** ![Asinus1223](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@Asinus1223](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Asinus1223)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-logstash-disappears-in-elasticsearch-indices/241359/3 "2020-07-16T12:05:34Z")

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Nothing.

I never see any indices in either Kibana or Curator.

heartbeat.yml:

```auto
#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
output.logstash:
  # The Logstash hosts
     hosts: ["localhost:5049"]
 

```

logstash pipeline:

```auto
input {
  beats {
    host => localhost
    port => 5049
# host => 0.0.0.0
    id => aws_us_east
    }
    type => "http_monitor"
}

filter {}

output {
  
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["http://localhost:9200"]
    }
}

```

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-logstash-disappears-in-elasticsearch-indices/241359/4 "2020-07-16T22:38:55Z")

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Is Logstash running on the same host as Heartbeat?  
Is that your only Logstash config?

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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:** [August 14, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-to-logstash-disappears-in-elasticsearch-indices/241359/5 "2020-08-14T00:39:02Z")

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