# Is it necessary to have a ES Index Template specified in Filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-a-es-index-template-specified-in-filebeat/217443>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-a-es-index-template-specified-in-filebeat/217443 "2020-01-31T18:05:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_eapen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@john\_eapen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/john_eapen)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-a-es-index-template-specified-in-filebeat/217443/1 "2020-01-31T18:05:15Z")

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Is it possible to have ES indexes created without an index template in Filebeat ?

The reason I ask is that we have field mapping conflicts with our log data.  
For eg: "service" is defined as an object in default template which filebeat creates but we have it as a string. Therefore this is rejected by ES.

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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:** [February 28, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-necessary-to-have-a-es-index-template-specified-in-filebeat/217443/2 "2020-02-28T18:11:29Z")

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