- Packetbeat Reference: other versions:
- Packetbeat overview
- Quick start: installation and configuration
- Set up and run
- Upgrade Packetbeat
- Configure
- Traffic sniffing
- Network flows
- Protocols
- Processes
- General settings
- Project paths
- Output
- Kerberos
- SSL
- Index lifecycle management (ILM)
- Elasticsearch index template
- Kibana endpoint
- Kibana dashboards
- Processors
- Define processors
- add_cloud_metadata
- add_cloudfoundry_metadata
- add_docker_metadata
- add_fields
- add_host_metadata
- add_id
- add_kubernetes_metadata
- add_labels
- add_locale
- add_network_direction
- add_nomad_metadata
- add_observer_metadata
- add_process_metadata
- add_tags
- community_id
- convert
- copy_fields
- decode_base64_field
- decode_json_fields
- decode_xml
- decode_xml_wineventlog
- decompress_gzip_field
- detect_mime_type
- dissect
- dns
- drop_event
- drop_fields
- extract_array
- fingerprint
- include_fields
- rate_limit
- registered_domain
- rename
- translate_sid
- truncate_fields
- urldecode
- Internal queue
- Logging
- HTTP endpoint
- Instrumentation
- packetbeat.reference.yml
- How to guides
- Exported fields
- AMQP fields
- Beat fields
- Cassandra fields
- Cloud provider metadata fields
- Common fields
- DHCPv4 fields
- DNS fields
- Docker fields
- ECS fields
- Flow Event fields
- Host fields
- HTTP fields
- ICMP fields
- Jolokia Discovery autodiscover provider fields
- Kubernetes fields
- Memcache fields
- MongoDb fields
- MySQL fields
- NFS fields
- PostgreSQL fields
- Process fields
- Raw fields
- Redis fields
- SIP fields
- Thrift-RPC fields
- Detailed TLS fields
- Transaction Event fields
- Measurements (Transactions) fields
- Monitor
- Secure
- Visualize Packetbeat data in Kibana
- Troubleshoot
- Get help
- Debug
- Record a trace
- Common problems
- Dashboard in Kibana is breaking up data fields incorrectly
- Packetbeat doesn’t see any packets when using mirror ports
- Packetbeat can’t capture traffic from Windows loopback interface
- Packetbeat is missing long running transactions
- Packetbeat isn’t capturing MySQL performance data
- Packetbeat uses too much bandwidth
- Error loading config file
- Found unexpected or unknown characters
- Logstash connection doesn’t work
- Publishing to Logstash fails with "connection reset by peer" message
- @metadata is missing in Logstash
- Not sure whether to use Logstash or Beats
- SSL client fails to connect to Logstash
- Monitoring UI shows fewer Beats than expected
- Dashboard could not locate the index-pattern
- Fields show up as nested JSON in Kibana
- Contribute to Beats
Change the index name
editChange the index name
editIf you’re sending events to a cluster that supports index lifecycle management, you need to change the index name in the ILM policy. See Index lifecycle management (ILM) to learn how to change it.
Packetbeat uses time series indices, by default, when index lifecycle
management is disabled or unsupported. The indices are named
packetbeat-7.15.2-yyyy.MM.dd, where yyyy.MM.dd is the date when the
events were indexed. To use a different name, set the
index option in the Elasticsearch output. The value that
you specify should include the root name of the index plus version and date
information. You also need to configure the setup.template.name and
setup.template.pattern options to match the new name. For example:
output.elasticsearch.index: "customname-%{[agent.version]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" setup.template.name: "customname" setup.template.pattern: "customname-*"
If index lifecycle management is enabled (which is typically the default), setup.template.name and setup.template.pattern are ignored.
If you’re using pre-built Kibana dashboards, also set the
setup.dashboards.index option. For example:
setup.dashboards.index: "customname-*"
For a full list of template setup options, see Elasticsearch index template.