# Unable to understand below indices can someone please help?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-understand-below-indices-can-someone-please-help/120363>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 18, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-understand-below-indices-can-someone-please-help/120363 "2018-02-18T18:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blason/32/42284_2.png) [@Blason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Blason)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-understand-below-indices-can-someone-please-help/120363/1 "2018-02-18T18:02:12Z")

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Hi team,

I am seeing below indices made

```
  index => "logstash-bro-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-switch-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-import-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-flow-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-ids-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-syslog-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-firewall-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-windows-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-ids-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-beats-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
  index => "logstash-test-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

```

And then below Indices configured in Kibana. Can you tell me what exactly that is?

_:logstash-_  
_:logstash-beats-_

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-understand-below-indices-can-someone-please-help/120363/2 "2018-02-18T21:25:35Z")

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The bottom ones are related to [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/modules-cross-cluster-search.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/modules-cross-cluster-search.html)

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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:** [March 18, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-understand-below-indices-can-someone-please-help/120363/3 "2018-03-18T21:39:44Z")

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