# Is it possible to monitor elasticsearch using metricbeat and custom index name?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-elasticsearch-using-metricbeat-and-custom-index-name/280084
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [July 30, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-elasticsearch-using-metricbeat-and-custom-index-name/280084 "2021-07-30T14:00:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-elasticsearch-using-metricbeat-and-custom-index-name/280084/1 "2021-07-30T14:00:12Z")
Hello !
I use metricbeat on the whole stack members (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana) to collect system metrics (enabled by default)
I use logstash output and custom index name
metricbeat.yml :
```auto
# ------------------------------ Logstash Output -------------------------------
output.logstash:
# The Logstash hosts
hosts: ["logstash1:5044","logstash2:5044"]
```
logstash pipeline (lab-metricbeat is an alias for my ilm policy) :
```auto
input {
beats {
port => 5044
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["http://logstash1:9200","http://logstash2:9200","http://kibana:9200"]
index => "lab-metricbeat"
ilm_enabled => true
manage_template => false
}
}
```
Now, I have to monitor all the cluster by activating the following metricbeat modules :
- elasticsearch-xpack
- logstash-xpack
- kibana-xpack
I'm asking if it will works because it looks like Kibana is waiting for specific index names like this to display monitoring data :
`.monitoring-kibana-*` and `.monitoring-es-*`
So, if I continue to use my custom index name, there is chance that monitoring data will never be displayed.
What do you think about that ?
Thanks !
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### Author:  [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-elasticsearch-using-metricbeat-and-custom-index-name/280084/2 "2021-07-31T15:46:32Z")
Anyone ? 🙂
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### Author:  [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-elasticsearch-using-metricbeat-and-custom-index-name/280084/3 "2021-07-31T16:03:43Z")
I do not think it is possible anymore, Kibana expects the monitoring data to be in the `.monitoring-*` index.
This is a similar question where it is confirmed that you can't change: [Change monitoring index name for Kibana UI](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-monitoring-index-name-for-kibana-ui/268530)
The currently recommended way to monitor the stack is to use metricbeat shipping the data directly to elasticsearch.
You can create a template for the monitoring index and add an alias `lab-metricbeat` so your ILM policy will still apply.
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### Author:  [@Travis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Travis)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-elasticsearch-using-metricbeat-and-custom-index-name/280084/4 "2021-07-31T16:44:40Z")
Ok. Thanks for this confirmation. Hope it will be possible in the future !
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-monitor-elasticsearch-using-metricbeat-and-custom-index-name/280084/5 "2021-08-28T18:44:58Z")
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