# Is an index automatically created for filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-an-index-automatically-created-for-filebeat/108580>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 21, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-an-index-automatically-created-for-filebeat/108580 "2017-11-21T15:21:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![przemolb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@przemolb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/przemolb)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-an-index-automatically-created-for-filebeat/108580/1 "2017-11-21T15:21:03Z")

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Hello,

I have just started filebeat (serverX) and logstash(serverY) with the following configuration

> <https://gist.github.com/anonymous/053d6cf2f8f68e9ca53828d2cd3852af>

  
Elasticsearch (serverZ) is running on another host.

- how can I verify that the logs from serverX get transfered to serverZ ?
- do I have to manually create an index on ES(serverZ) for all the logs from serverX ? Can it be done automatically ?

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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:** [December 19, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-an-index-automatically-created-for-filebeat/108580/2 "2017-12-19T15:21:07Z")

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