diff --git a/resources/elasticsearch_events_template_footer.json b/resources/elasticsearch_events_template_footer.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..be8817a918c4a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/elasticsearch_events_template_footer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+    }
+   }
+}
diff --git a/resources/elasticsearch_events_template_header.json b/resources/elasticsearch_events_template_header.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..125b65703ebaf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/elasticsearch_events_template_header.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+    "network" : {
+    "template" : "events*",
+    "settings" : {
+    "index.refresh_interval" : "10s",
+     "index.cache.filter.expire" : "2m",
+     "index.cache.field.expire" : "2m"
+    },
+    "mappings" : {
+       "meta" : {
diff --git a/scripts/buildESTemplate.sh b/scripts/buildESTemplate.sh
index 8f5bfe8cb62e26..3499bc2b350657 100755
--- a/scripts/buildESTemplate.sh
+++ b/scripts/buildESTemplate.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 ES_TEMPLATE=resources/network.json
+EVENTS_TEMPLATE=resources/events.json
 
 cat resources/elasticsearch_network_template_header.json > $ES_TEMPLATE
 perl scripts/buildESTemplate.pl protofiles/DpiMsgLRproto.proto resources/remapping >> $ES_TEMPLATE
 cat resources/elasticsearch_network_template_footer.json >> $ES_TEMPLATE
 
+cat resources/elasticsearch_events_template_header.json > $EVENTS_TEMPLATE
+perl scripts/buildESTemplate.pl protofiles/DpiMsgLRproto.proto resources/remapping >> $EVENTS_TEMPLATE
+cat resources/elasticsearch_events_template_footer.json >> $EVENTS_TEMPLATE
+