# Use wildcard when defining event-time based index with Kibana 4.1.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 26, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-wildcard-when-defining-event-time-based-index-with-kibana-4-1-2/48403 "2016-04-26T09:14:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Emmanuel\_DEMEY](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/emmanuel_demey/32/7912_2.png) [@Emmanuel\_DEMEY](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Emmanuel_DEMEY)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-wildcard-when-defining-event-time-based-index-with-kibana-4-1-2/48403/1 "2016-04-26T09:14:59Z")
Hi everyone, Just a quick question I have since this morning about Kibana 4.1.2. When I configure a news index pattern, I have checked the second check box : Use event times to create index names. According to the documentation, we have to specify the static text between brackets, and the date format outside. Is it possible to use wildcard in this pattern ? in order to be able to define dynamic prefix ? like : [logstash-]\*-YYYY.MM.DD ? Thanks a lot Regards Manu ---
**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-wildcard-when-defining-event-time-based-index-with-kibana-4-1-2/48403/2 "2016-04-26T16:20:02Z")
It's not in 4.1 - see [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4465](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/4465) for more info. In Kibana 4.3+ this would be available. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-wildcard-when-defining-event-time-based-index-with-kibana-4-1-2/48403/3 "2017-07-06T13:55:02Z")