# Adding a field while parsing for kibana
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-field-while-parsing-for-kibana/190787
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-field-while-parsing-for-kibana/190787 "2019-07-16T16:06:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Soumitra\_Ghosh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Soumitra_Ghosh)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-field-while-parsing-for-kibana/190787/1 "2019-07-16T16:06:31Z")
Here is something i do to get java exceptions in fluentd is this possible in filebeat?
thanks
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@type record\_transformer
enable\_ruby
exception ${record["log"][/(java.[a-zA-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+Exception)/m,1] || 'non-java'}
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### Author:  [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2019, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-field-while-parsing-for-kibana/190787/2 "2019-07-19T07:42:49Z")
Hi @Soumitra_Ghosh,
I am not sure what field you are adding with this fluentd configuration, but with filebeat you can add fields using the [`fields` option](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.2/filebeat-input-log.html#filebeat-input-log-fields) of the log input, the [`add_fields` processor](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/7.2/add-fields.html). Or, if you are using an ingest pipeline to parse logs with the [`set` processor](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.2/set-processor.html).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-a-field-while-parsing-for-kibana/190787/3 "2019-08-16T07:43:47Z")
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