# Auditbeat error with add\_process\_metadata missing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-with-add-process-metadata-missing/151228>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [October 5, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-with-add-process-metadata-missing/151228 "2018-10-05T14:38:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![grants](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grants/32/117040_2.png) [@grants](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grants)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-with-add-process-metadata-missing/151228/1 "2018-10-05T14:38:36Z")

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Trying to do a lookup of [process][ppid] and push the data into [process][parent] but simple testing can't even get auditbeat to start due to an error that the processor is missing.

```auto
## config:
processors:
- add_process_metadata:
    match_pids: [system.process.ppid]
    target: system.process.parent

## Error:
2018-10-05T09:28:15.589-0500 ERROR instance/beat.go:743 Exiting: error initializing publisher: error initializing processors: the processor add_process_metadata doesn't exist

## version:
auditbeat version 6.4.1 (amd64), libbeat 6.4.1 [37b5f2d2a20f2734b2373a454b4b4cbb2627e841 built 2018-09-13 21:23:13 +0000 UTC]

## Tested with newest 6.4.2
2018-10-05T09:45:15.541-0500 INFO instance/beat.go:273 Setup Beat: auditbeat; Version: 6.4.2
2018-10-05T09:45:15.541-0500 INFO instance/beat.go:327 auditbeat stopped.
2018-10-05T09:45:15.542-0500 ERROR instance/beat.go:743 Exiting: error initializing publisher: error initializing processors: the processor add_process_metadata doesn't exist

```

Has anyone been able to get this processor to work?

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**Author:** ![adrisr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adrisr/32/25423_2.png) [@adrisr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adrisr)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-with-add-process-metadata-missing/151228/2 "2018-10-05T14:58:20Z")

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Hi,

The `add_process_metadata` processor is not available in 6.4, it will appear in 6.5.0.

You can try building Auditbeat yourself from our 6.x branch once this cherry-pick is merged [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8570](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/8570)

Or build from master (7.0.0-snapshot).

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**Author:** ![grants](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grants/32/117040_2.png) [@grants](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grants)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-with-add-process-metadata-missing/151228/3 "2018-10-05T16:06:56Z")

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Thanks,

I was reading the wrong documentation and now see that it's not listed as supported processor on this page: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/defining-processors.html#processors](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/auditbeat/current/defining-processors.html#processors)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-error-with-add-process-metadata-missing/151228/4 "2018-10-26T16:06:59Z")

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