# Kibana index change name | SOLVED
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-change-name-solved/142171
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 30, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-change-name-solved/142171 "2018-07-30T11:57:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mebots](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mebots)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2018, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-change-name-solved/142171/1 "2018-07-30T11:57:17Z")
Hi,
Have the following problem:
New instance of kibana 6.3.1, have changed inside de kibana.yml the kibana.index: ".kibana" to ".kibana631" but it will not created in elasticsearch.
Have someone a solution?
Thank you
Martijn
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-change-name-solved/142171/2 "2018-07-30T17:32:13Z")
Hey @mebots, have you restarted Kibana after changing that value in the `kibana.yml`? Also, have you checked your Kibana logs to see if there's an error being logged?
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### Author:  [@mebots](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mebots)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-change-name-solved/142171/3 "2018-07-31T07:33:46Z")
Thank you @Brandon_Kobel,
Yes we restart the Kibana instance, but nothing.
The solution we found was the following:
1. Login to the new Kibana instance
2. Create index pattern of an index
3. Then the .kibana631 was created
So it's strange, why we startup the new instance the index is not created, but this is a work around.
Martijn
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-change-name-solved/142171/4 "2018-07-31T10:34:54Z")
Hey @mebots, we don't create the Kibana index as soon as Kibana starts up, instead we create it as soon as we need to save something to the Kibana index, which would explain why you're not seeing it created immediately.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-index-change-name-solved/142171/5 "2018-08-28T10:35:01Z")
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