How to create filebeat index pattern in kibana?

Question

I'm currently using ELK stack with filebeat. I'm able to map the apache log file contents to Elasticsearch server in json format. Now I would like to know how to create a index pattern for filebeat in kibana? Followed below link but that did not help. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-index-pattern.html

Answer 1

As stated on the page you linked, "To load this pattern, you can use the script that’s provided for importing dashboards." So before you will see the filebeat-* index pattern you should run the ./scripts/import_dashboards tool then refresh the page. This will write the index pattern into the .kibana index used by Kibana.

For Linux when installed by rpm or deb the command is:

/usr/share/filebeat/scripts/import_dashboards -es http://elasticsearch:9200

If you are using the tar or zip package the command is located in the scripts directory of the package.

You can further manage or modify index patterns in Kibana by going to Management -> Index Patterns.