# Metricbeat post in every index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-post-in-every-index/86639>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 22, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-post-in-every-index/86639 "2017-05-22T09:31:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ImJezz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/edb3f5/32.png) [@ImJezz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ImJezz)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-post-in-every-index/86639/1 "2017-05-22T09:31:25Z")

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Hello, I am trying to combine data in a way that everything will be clean and seperated.  
I am using a index for the database information and another index for metricbeat. For the combined data of those two, I use the same alias, but somehow metricbeat just posts all information in all aliases and indexes without even having the same alias as the one it's posting in. Bad explaination, here is my schema.

> index: company\_data-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}  
> ALIAS: company\_data\_monthly\_05 & company\_comb\_monthly\_05 index: company\_data-2017.05\*  
> ALIAS: company\_data\_daily\_22 & company\_comb\_daily\_22 index: company\_data-2017.05.22

> index: metricbeat-\*  
> ALIAS: company\_metrics\_monthly\_05 & company\_comb\_monthly\_05 index: metricbeat-2017.05\*  
> ALIAS: company\_metrics\_daily\_22 & company\_comb\_daily\_22 index: metribeat-2017.05.22

I do not wan't metricbeat to flood other aliases

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-post-in-every-index/86639/2 "2017-05-23T12:41:16Z")

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How does your metricbeat config look like? In general, if things show up in your aliases but metricbeat writes only directly to the index, something must be wrong with the alias config because metricbeat can't influence that.

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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:** [June 20, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-post-in-every-index/86639/3 "2017-06-20T12:54:20Z")

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