Creating an index pattern in Kibana

Create an index pattern in the Kibana dashboard to retrieve IBM® Cloud Pak for Network Automation data from Elasticsearch.

Procedure

  1. Open the Kibana dashboard and log in with the credentials for OpenShift®.
    Tip: You might need to allow some permissions for Kibana to access your account.
  2. Type the following pattern as the index pattern: lm-logs*
  3. Click Next step.
  4. Select @timestamp from the Time filter field name list.
  5. Click Show advanced options.
  6. Type the following pattern as the custom index pattern ID: lm-logs
  7. Click Create index pattern.

Results

The index pattern is available in the Kibana dashboard, as shown in the following example:

Kibana dashboard Index Patterns pane with new pattern