# Index logstash in kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286 "2017-03-28T11:20:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286/1 "2017-03-28T11:20:39Z")
How to index logstash-\* in kibana.
Im using ELK stack 5.2 version and i have indexed filebeat, metricbeat, packetbeat and winlogbeat.
Im using filbeat config sending logs to logstash-\>elasticsearch-\>kibana
i need to index logstash, please tel us how do i do that.
please find my logstash configuation below.
input {
beats {
port =\> 5044
type =\> "log"
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts =\> "[bngwidap108.aonnet.aon.net:9200](http://bngwidap108.aonnet.aon.net:9200)"
manage\_template =\> false
index =\> "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
document\_type =\> "%{[@metadata][type]}"
}
}
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286/2 "2017-03-28T13:08:55Z")
> How to index logstash-\* in kibana.
It's not clear what you mean by this.
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### Author:  [@Sujith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sujith)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286/3 "2017-03-28T13:43:33Z")
i mean i couldn't able to index logstash.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286/4 "2017-03-28T14:16:20Z")
Yes, but I don't understand what "index logstash" means.
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### Author:  [@prodrg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prodrg)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286/5 "2017-03-28T15:11:35Z")
Do you want to send the data to an index called `logstash-*`?
With your current output settings, you are sending it to the index `"%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"`. If you want to send to `logstash-*`, the index key on the output file should have the value `"logstash-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"` instead.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-logstash-in-kibana/80286/6 "2017-04-25T15:11:53Z")
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