# Index Pattern Change in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-change-in-kibana/77158>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-change-in-kibana/77158 "2017-03-02T14:53:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![gsb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@gsb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gsb)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-change-in-kibana/77158/1 "2017-03-02T14:53:39Z")

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Can i change an existing index pattern to a different name ?

If it can be changed do I need to change all searches, visulations and dashboards where that index is used manually or is there a better way of doing it ?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-change-in-kibana/77158/2 "2017-03-02T20:10:54Z")

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Hi @gsb,

that's not possible AFAIK. The index-pattern-name is equivalent to the actual expression that Kibana uses to match indices in ES. If you'd change that, you would also change what data your index pattern points to.

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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:** [March 30, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pattern-change-in-kibana/77158/3 "2017-03-30T20:11:22Z")

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