Creating Index Templates in Elasticsearch 7.13

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Creating Index Templates in Elasticsearch 7.13

When working with time series or data streaming use cases, you typically want to spread your data out into multiple indices as to not make an index too large and incur performance penalties as a result. By using index templates, we can instantiate an index for a given dataset very quickly and even automatically. In this hands-on lab, you will get to create index templates in Elasticsearch in order to prepare the cluster to ingest continuously generated time series data.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Create the Load Index Template

From the Kibana console, craft a request to create the load index template to match all indices that start with "load-" and creates them with 1 primary and 0 replica shards.
Challenge

Create the CPU Index Template

From the Kibana console, craft a request to create the cpu index template to match all indices that start with "cpu-" and creates them with 1 primary and 0 replica shards.
Challenge

Create the Memory Index Template

From the Kibana console, craft a request to create the memory index template to match all indices that start with "memory-" and creates them with 1 primary and 0 replica shards.

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