# Using a different Index other than Heartbeat-7.0.0

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134
**Category:** Synthetics
**Created:** [July 31, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134 "2019-07-31T14:09:00Z")
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### Author: ![PeterPain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@PeterPain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterPain)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134/1 "2019-07-31T14:09:00Z")

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Hey dear Elastic-Team,

The documentation gives following specification about how the index should be named for uptime App.

> Kibana 7.0 requires an index of `heartbeat-7*` (containing documents from Heartbeat 7.0).

And im using Heartbeat but have a different name for my index so im not able to use the Uptime App.  
Is it possible to use a different index name than Heartbeat-7\* for the Uptime-App ? Or is this currently not possible ?

Thanks for any response

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### Author: ![RdrgPorto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rdrgporto/32/13278_2.png) [@RdrgPorto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RdrgPorto)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2019, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134/2 "2019-08-01T08:17:36Z")

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Hi, @PeterPain

I have the same doubt about **Uptime**. It would be nice to configure it like **Infrastructure & Logs** ([Elastic Doc](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/infrastructure-ui-settings-kb.html)).

Regards 🖖

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### Author: ![Jugsofbeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@Jugsofbeer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jugsofbeer)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134/3 "2019-08-02T04:11:40Z")

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id want this flexibility too in a similar way to the Infrastructure settings. But have worked with whats there ... cant have everything all at once

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### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134/4 "2019-08-03T03:09:54Z")

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Have you tried an index alias

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html)

Perhaps that will work for you...

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### Author: ![PeterPain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@PeterPain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PeterPain)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134/5 "2019-08-05T10:30:12Z")

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Hey Stephen,

Thanks for your response. Using an Alias for my Indices worked !  
Easy and nice solution by using following syntax:

```
POST /_aliases
{
    "actions" : [
        { "add" : { "index" : "all_your_indices*", "alias" : "heartbeat-7" } }
    ]
}
```

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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: [August 29, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-a-different-index-other-than-heartbeat-7-0-0/193134/6 "2019-08-29T10:30:21Z")

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