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I am new to Kibana. I am learning it from Docs. It is written in docs that "Specify an index pattern that matches the name of one or more of your Elasticsearch indices." I am not able to understand how to create Elasticsearch indices and where to save it so as to specify an index pattern in Kibana.

MERLIN THOMAS
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  • Which version are you using? – Val Mar 10 '17 at 06:50
  • For Kibana 5: https://www.elastic.co/assets/blt4ceebc7c5bd0bc0b/index-pattern.png For Kibana 4: https://www.timroes.de/images/kibana4-tutorials/index-pattern.png?5b066f – Val Mar 10 '17 at 06:52
  • I am using : Elasticsearch 2.3.2 Logstash 2.3.2 Kibana 4.5.0 . I have read https://github.com/gigi81/elk-windows-installer/releases and download v1.0.12. It has the above ELK Configuration. – MERLIN THOMAS Mar 10 '17 at 07:01
  • It looks like you need some introductory material. I suggest you start reading here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/index.html – Val Mar 10 '17 at 07:08

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To create an index:

  1. Navigate to dev tools in Kibana from the left side panel

dev tool option image 2. use the below command and run it

PUT index_name

  1. On the right side window a successful creation message will be seen just like in the 2nd image attached index created successfully

  2. To create an index pattern now navigate to management tab and select index pattern. the screen looks like this index pattern

  3. In the step 1of 2 , type the name of the index you used in step 1. the index must get highlighted in bold as in image. select next index pattern step

  4. Select next for step 2

7.once index pattern is created it will appear under index pattern with a * at the end , like this

created index pattern

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