# Winlogbeat Index

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-index/297803
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [February 21, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-index/297803 "2022-02-21T18:25:55Z")
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### Author: ![francescouk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@francescouk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/francescouk)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-index/297803/1 "2022-02-21T18:25:55Z")

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Hello there, I´m trying the elk stack 8 and I´m a bit lost. Configured the security portion and when I send the logs over to the Elasticsearch cluster, I cannot see the index on index management. But I can see after ticking hidden indices. Something change about the index on elk 8? And also winlogbeat creates a index called:

```auto
.ds-winlogbeat-8.0.0-2022.02.21-000001

```

Is that alright??

Thanks for the attention.

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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 22, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-index/297803/2 "2022-02-22T23:10:42Z")

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> [@francescouk](#):
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> Is that alright??

Yes that is fine. 8.0 uses datastreams to store the data.

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### Author: ![francescouk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@francescouk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/francescouk)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-index/297803/3 "2022-02-23T02:22:15Z")

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What about the name convention winlogbeat-\* dosent change a thing? I mean, dashboards, security and etc?

Thanks

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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 23, 2022, 2:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-index/297803/4 "2022-02-23T02:33:26Z")

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I'm not sure how of the technical details at that level to be honest. There may be aliases or other things in place to handle it.

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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 23, 2022, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/winlogbeat-index/297803/5 "2022-03-23T04:34:03Z")

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