# How to manage Elasticsearch data across multiple indices with Filebeat, ILM,
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-elasticsearch-data-across-multiple-indices-with-filebeat-ilm/310901
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 28, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-elasticsearch-data-across-multiple-indices-with-filebeat-ilm/310901 "2022-07-28T15:51:38Z")
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### Author:  [@tractor\_boy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tractor_boy)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-elasticsearch-data-across-multiple-indices-with-filebeat-ilm/310901/1 "2022-07-28T15:51:39Z")
[https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-manage-elasticsearch-data-multiple-indices-filebeat-ilm-data-stream](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-manage-elasticsearch-data-multiple-indices-filebeat-ilm-data-stream)
I have read this through but cannot seem to get it to work. My current issue is that logs are being written but they are not landing in elastic. However I have no idea to work out what is going on. What can I do to understand what filebeat is doing and where, if anywhere, it is writing logs to?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-elasticsearch-data-across-multiple-indices-with-filebeat-ilm/310901/2 "2022-08-25T15:52:36Z")
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