How To Create Index For Kibana

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How to create Index for Kibana?

About Index

  • To use Kibana, indicate the Elasticsearch indices that need to be explored by configuring one or more index patterns

  • What is the Elastic Search Index? An index is some type of data organization mechanism that allows the user to partition data in a certain way. An index is a logical namespace which maps to one or more primary shards and can have zero or more replica shards.

Specific to UiPath Orchestrator

  • Information about setting up Kibana and Elastic Search can be found here: Orchestrator Prerequisites For Installation- Elasticsearch Server.

  • By default, the index name looks like TenantName-yyyy.MM. For example, the index for the Default Tenant in the month of May 2019 will be created with name "Default-201905", which means that per month, 1 index gets created for each tenant.

Creating an Index in Kibana

  1. To create an index, navigate to Management → Index Patterns → Create Index Patterns
  2. Enter the tenant name and select @timestamp as a filter field. Here, the timestamp is used to differentiate between each log. Click on Create:

  1. Once created, it should look like this:


  1. The format of the data can be modified by clicking on the edit button for each data field that has been created.


For more insight about indices or Kibana, refer to Kibana Data Views.