# Why does filebeat create dashboards for disabled modules?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-filebeat-create-dashboards-for-disabled-modules/270840>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-filebeat-create-dashboards-for-disabled-modules/270840 "2021-04-21T12:39:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![ndtreviv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ndtreviv/32/22494_2.png) [@ndtreviv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ndtreviv)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-filebeat-create-dashboards-for-disabled-modules/270840/1 "2021-04-21T12:39:11Z")

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I recently installed filebeat to monitor and ship my nginx logs.  
I followed the setup instructions, and included the `setup.kibana` config details because I wanted the nginx dashboards.  
However, when running setup filebeat has created dashboards for ALL modules, flooding my kibana with a plethora of entirely useless dashboards.  
Why does it do this?  
How can I make it not do this in future?

Many thanks

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-filebeat-create-dashboards-for-disabled-modules/270840/2 "2021-04-21T12:42:30Z")

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Everything in the `kibana/7/dashboard/` folder will be uploaded. Can just delete the files you don't want uploaded before you run `setup`.

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**Author:** ![ndtreviv](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ndtreviv/32/22494_2.png) [@ndtreviv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ndtreviv)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-filebeat-create-dashboards-for-disabled-modules/270840/3 "2021-04-21T12:55:08Z")

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Similarly, when the filebeat index pattern gets created there's an unbelievable amount of cruft in there - so much so that Kibana times out trying to show me the index mapping for the first time.

The fields.yml file says at the top to not edit it directly. Is that still good advice?

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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:** [May 19, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-filebeat-create-dashboards-for-disabled-modules/270840/4 "2021-05-19T14:55:21Z")

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