# Indices Creation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-creation/277949>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 6, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-creation/277949 "2021-07-06T10:46:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ashwin\_Patil1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashwin_patil1/32/90642_2.png) [@Ashwin\_Patil1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ashwin_Patil1)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-creation/277949/1 "2021-07-06T10:46:42Z")

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I am trying to collect logs from linux, windows, network devices, firewall and Azure.  
How can I have separate index for each of these sources? what is the best practice?  
I have logstash configured but for now it is configured only to ingest syslogs.

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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:** [August 3, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-creation/277949/2 "2021-08-03T10:47:08Z")

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