Well, "I'll be switched" (as they used to say).
If I create an index pattern on "local-neal-test-kibananew4a-", it works.
I was using an index pattern on "local-neal-" it doesn't, even though all the data is displayed. I presume that's because not all messages in local-neal-* have the exact same type.
When I use the management tab to create the index pattern: local-neal-test-kibananew4a-*
it pops up the "Time Filter field name" box":
I had never seen that before. I guess I need to read up on what index patterns really do.
I thought Kibana would be super user-friendly, but that are apparently tricks to be learned.
We have naming standards for our indexes. What I was hoping to do was watch the "trace" of my business process across different indexes and be able to get them in date/time sequence, since they all had the same createdDate field. Apparently this won't work??
Neal