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Generating the Beat Index Pattern
editGenerating the Beat Index Pattern
editIf you change the fields exported by the Beat, you need to generate a new index pattern for your Beat. Otherwise
you can just use the index pattern available under the etc/kibana/index-pattern directory or in the beats-dashboards
archive for the Elastic Beats.
The Beat index pattern is generated from the etc/fields.yml, where all the fields for a Beat are defined. For each field, besides the type, you can configure the
format field. The format informs Kibana about how to display a certain field. A good example is percentage or bytes
to display fields as 50% or 5MB.
To generate the index pattern from the etc/fields.yml, you need to run the following command in the Beat repository:
make update