# Trying to setup Filebeat with ILM - enabling ILM seems to prevent index from appearing in Elastic
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-setup-filebeat-with-ilm-enabling-ilm-seems-to-prevent-index-from-appearing-in-elastic/273211
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management, filebeat
**Created:** [May 17, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-setup-filebeat-with-ilm-enabling-ilm-seems-to-prevent-index-from-appearing-in-elastic/273211 "2021-05-17T17:57:07Z")
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### Author:  [@aidenosi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aidenosi)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-setup-filebeat-with-ilm-enabling-ilm-seems-to-prevent-index-from-appearing-in-elastic/273211/1 "2021-05-17T17:57:07Z")
Hello all,
Been trying to set up ILM for our existing Logstash/filebeat deployments. I've successfully set it up for Logstash, but am having issues with Filebeat. Whenever I add the ILM settings to filebeat.yml, the index will no longer show in Elastic.
Filebeat.yml:
```auto
filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
# Change to true to enable this input configuration.
enabled: true
paths:
- "/var/log/filebeat*"
- "/app/CQF0/CONFLUENCE/CONFLUENCE-DATA/logs/*.log"
- "/app/CQF0/CONFLUENCE/CONFLUENCE-HOME/logs/attlassian*"
#============================= Filebeat modules ===============================
filebeat.config.modules:
path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
reload.enabled: false
reload.period: 60s
#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================
setup.template.settings:
index.number_of_shards: 3
setup.template.name: "cqf0-logs"
setup.template.pattern: "cqf0-*"
setup.template.overwrite: true
name: "DEV-LINUX-SERVER-LOGS"
#----------------------------- Elasticsearch output --------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
hosts: ["{{ ES_HOST }}"]
username: ${ES_USR}
password: ${ES_PSW}
index: "cqf0-logs-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}"
ssl.verification_mode: none
ilm.enabled: true
ilm.rollover_alias: "cqf0-logs"
ilm.pattern: "cqf0-*"
```
Really not sure what the problem is. If I remove the last three lines, the index will show up (after a bit of a delay), but I need to get ILM working. Any help would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-setup-filebeat-with-ilm-enabling-ilm-seems-to-prevent-index-from-appearing-in-elastic/273211/2 "2021-05-17T22:56:42Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃
What do your Filebeat logs show?
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### Author:  [@aidenosi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aidenosi)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-setup-filebeat-with-ilm-enabling-ilm-seems-to-prevent-index-from-appearing-in-elastic/273211/3 "2021-05-19T14:32:51Z")
Hi there,
The logs don't show any errors, but I had a colleague try the same config on a Windows host (I'm handling the Linux hosts) and we ran into errors there. Should be able to sort them out. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trying-to-setup-filebeat-with-ilm-enabling-ilm-seems-to-prevent-index-from-appearing-in-elastic/273211/4 "2021-06-16T16:33:22Z")
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