IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

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Step 4: Set up assets

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Step 4: Set up assets

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Filebeat comes with predefined assets for parsing, indexing, and visualizing your data. To load these assets:

Make sure the user specified in filebeat.yml is authorized to set up Filebeat.
From the installation directory, run:
```
filebeat setup -e
```
```
filebeat setup -e
```
```
./filebeat setup -e
```
```
filebeat setup -e
```
```
./filebeat setup -e
```
```
PS > .\filebeat.exe setup -e
```
-e is optional and sends output to standard error instead of the configured log output.

This step loads the recommended index template for writing to Elasticsearch and deploys the sample dashboards for visualizing the data in Kibana.

This step does not load the ingest pipelines used to parse log lines. By default, ingest pipelines are set up automatically the first time you run the module and connect to Elasticsearch.

A connection to Elasticsearch (or Elasticsearch Service) is required to set up the initial environment. If you’re using a different output, such as Logstash, see:

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