# Beat.name change in Filebeat 5.4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-name-change-in-filebeat-5-4/91587>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [July 3, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-name-change-in-filebeat-5-4/91587 "2017-07-03T05:28:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pandiyan\_M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pandiyan_m/32/19404_2.png) [@Pandiyan\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pandiyan_M)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-name-change-in-filebeat-5-4/91587/1 "2017-07-03T05:28:02Z")

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Hi I have installed Filebeat 5.4 on ubuntu server and where multiple logs like web.log, email.log available, need to forward to logstash server (ELK) to see in kibana.

Here my filebeat.yml file as below

```
filebeat.prospectors:
- input_type: log
  document_type: web_log
  paths:
    - /var/log/web.log
  fields:
    log_type: weblog
  fields_under_root: true

- input_type: log
  document_type: email_log
  paths:
    - /var/log/email.log
  fields:
    log_type: emaillog
  fields_under_root: true
beat.name: 10.0.0.0

```

Where in Kibana expecting Discover should have

filebeat.hostname should be hostname of server

where [beat.name](http://beat.name) should be server IP

So I have given [beat.name](http://beat.name) as , but in kibana dashboard its coming as below

`July 3rd 2017, 10:50:41.038	log_type:weblog @timestamp:July 3rd 2017, 10:50:41.038 offset:107 @version:1 input_type:log beat.hostname:filebeat-ubuntu beat.name:filebeat-ubuntu beat.version:5.4.2 host:filebeat-ubuntu source:/var/log/web.log message:2017-06-01 12:15:39 INFO PortalUpload- Upload Structure Data webservice invoked from partner Id thyrocare type:web_log tags:beats_input_codec_plain_applied _id:AV0G5L5dcY69oGswS0N3 _type:web_log _index:filebeat-2017.07.03 _score: -`

Though I have given [beat.name](http://beat.name) in filebeat.yml, its not reflecting.

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-name-change-in-filebeat-5-4/91587/2 "2017-07-03T06:00:37Z")

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The setting is `name: <custom name>`.

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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:** [July 31, 2017, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beat-name-change-in-filebeat-5-4/91587/3 "2017-07-31T06:00:42Z")

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