Metricbeat forcing to use manually created template

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Hi @Ronaldo_Lanhellas Please share your metricbeat.yml and what version you are on.

By the way, setting up an index per app is an anti-pattern, as it potentially creates many small indices, which is not efficient. Curious why you want to do this... not to say there is not a reason but curious why.

Putting many apps in the same index / data stream is the best practice and then filter on the Query Side

for 8.14 this is a complete working metricbeat.yml

That will write to custom alias, index or data stream

metricbeat.config.modules:
  # Glob pattern for configuration loading
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml

  # Set to true to enable config reloading
  reload.enabled: false

setup.template.enabled: false
setup.ilm.enabled: false

setup.kibana:

# ---------------------------- Elasticsearch Output ----------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
  # Array of hosts to connect to.
  hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
  index: my-metrics

GET _cat/indices/my-metrics?v

# Result
health status index      uuid                   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size dataset.size
yellow open   my-metrics tYuUH8ovRJC0rSNj2nbECw   1   1        291            0    566.4kb        566.4kb      566.4kb

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