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Using Index Patterns To Search Your Logs & Metrics With Kibana

What are index patterns and how can I use them to query Elasticsearch with Kibana on the Logit platform? All logs and metrics that you send to Logit belong to an index pattern. To search your data with Kibana you have to select which Elasticsearch index or indices that you want to explore.

The filebeat-* index pattern enables you to search all fields for any logs sent to Logit using the https://logit.io/sources/configure/filebeat, this is an example of an index pattern matching on a single index. Tip: When you access Kibana for the very first time the default index pattern is set to search log data from all indices being sent to Elasticsearch (a multiple indices match), the pattern is *-*.