# May i change the indices folder name as my own using logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-change-the-indices-folder-name-as-my-own-using-logstash/98045>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-change-the-indices-folder-name-as-my-own-using-logstash/98045 "2017-08-23T09:54:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![suganth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@suganth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suganth)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-change-the-indices-folder-name-as-my-own-using-logstash/98045/1 "2017-08-23T09:54:21Z")

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Hi,  
My requirement is when the logstash giving input to the elasticsearch it starts creating indices in the data directory currently the indices folder name is like this "8Vrmw6l3ToWu32FQ7nuWUw" my requirement is this name should be a created date like "Logstash-YYYY.MM.dd" there is any way or workaround is there to acheive this, am using ELK setup in my local machine logstash-5.5.0 kibana-5.5.0 elasticsearch-5.5.0 and my logstash.conf file is look like

Thanks in advance, Suganth A.

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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:** [September 20, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/may-i-change-the-indices-folder-name-as-my-own-using-logstash/98045/2 "2017-09-20T09:54:37Z")

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