{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/3351","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/3351/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/3351/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/3351/events","html_url":"https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3351","id":61698043,"number":3351,"title":"Allowing duplicate index patterns","user":{"login":"w33ble","id":404731,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/404731?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble","html_url":"https://github.com/w33ble","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/w33ble/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"009800"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-03-14T21:29:48Z","updated_at":"2016-03-30T12:20:27Z","closed_at":null,"body":"This came up at Elasticon - the ability to use the exact same index pattern but with a different date field.\r\n\r\nRight now, our \"ID\" for a pattern is the pattern itself, so this isn't possible. Maybe we should move to an index or UUID for the patterns."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/comments/203404804","html_url":"https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/3351#issuecomment-203404804","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/kibana/issues/3351","id":203404804,"user":{"login":"timroes","id":877229,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/877229?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes","html_url":"https://github.com/timroes","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/timroes/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-03-30T12:20:27Z","updated_at":"2016-03-30T12:20:27Z","body":"Another use case, I have heared more often is, that indexes are renamed. And people like to keep their visualizations with the new index names, and currently that involves scripting something, that modifies the .kibana index in ES."}}