# How to Change Default Index Pattern on Filebeat dashboards on Kibana **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486 **Category:** Beats **Tags:** filebeat **Created:** [August 15, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486 "2021-08-15T18:11:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 6 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![nunex\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@nunex\_17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nunex_17) #### Post date: [August 15, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486/1 "2021-08-15T18:11:42Z")
Hi. I am having a hard time trying to figure this out. I changed the default index name to suricata-ids. ![Screenshot 2021-08-15 at 19.08.01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/0/20a6daae7af544e992ca039867112dde1e5e814d.png) Also, added this line in order to use this new index on the default dashboards. ![Screenshot 2021-08-15 at 19.08.14](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/9/4974c90393d7d94528b79461779ed5eaa089d8b0.png) But still, default dashboards are pointing to filebeat index. ![Screenshot 2021-08-15 at 19.11.26](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/f/df21d645f560406ed70218bc1fa04d2efc43a5a0.jpeg) ---
### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb) #### Post date: [August 15, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486/2 "2021-08-15T18:21:53Z")
Did you clean out the old dashboards and the run `setup` again. ---
### Author: ![nunex\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@nunex\_17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nunex_17) #### Post date: [August 15, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486/3 "2021-08-15T18:53:46Z")
Yes, already did that again ---
### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb) #### Post date: [August 15, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486/4 "2021-08-15T18:59:46Z")
Interesting this is not working for me either.... even when I clean out and run setup. This seems like a bug... perhaps you could file a bug report. What I did do ... and you can for a workaround is edit the visualizations jsons from the filebeat directory ```auto kibana/7/dashboard/filebeat-suricata-alert-overview.json kibana/7/dashboard/filebeat-suricata-event-overview.json ``` And replace the `filebeat-*` with your `suricata-ids-*` That seems to work for me. Obviously this is a work around. Also Please don't post screenshots of text some people can not read it and it can not be searched on nor can we cut-n-paste to test. Note : I asked a question internally as well. ---
### Author: ![nunex\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f17d59/32.png) [@nunex\_17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nunex_17) #### Post date: [August 15, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486/5 "2021-08-15T19:51:42Z")
Thank you! Problem solved. I will file a bug report ---
### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system) #### Post date: [September 12, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-default-index-pattern-on-filebeat-dashboards-on-kibana/281486/6 "2021-09-12T21:52:20Z")
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