# Beats management questions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-management-questions/179617>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 4, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-management-questions/179617 "2019-05-04T12:02:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-management-questions/179617/1 "2019-05-04T12:02:23Z")

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Trying to get started in beats central management.

1. How can I specify a port in logstash output hosts?

2. How to add fields in the general section via management?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Michal\_Pristas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michal_pristas/32/46639_2.png) [@Michal\_Pristas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michal_Pristas)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-management-questions/179617/2 "2019-05-06T09:16:45Z")

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port of the Logstash is just a part of the URI e.g: `"127.0.0.1:5044"`

are you interested in custom fields?

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**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-management-questions/179617/3 "2019-05-06T11:58:38Z")

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My first config got DNS lookup failures on the "host:5044" combinations, but I can't reproduce it. I think I had a comma separated list as copied from filebeat.yml, now I have one line per host.

In filebeat.reference.yml, after line

`> #================================ General =`

Section  
\> # Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the  
\> # output. Fields can be scalar values, arrays, dictionaries, or any nested  
\> # combination of these.  
\> #fields:  
\> # env: staging

Looking for the equivalent for managed beats, tags and fields that would be added to all inputs and modules.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Michal\_Pristas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michal_pristas/32/46639_2.png) [@Michal\_Pristas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michal_Pristas)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-management-questions/179617/4 "2019-05-06T13:26:40Z")

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@rugenl regarding general fields, I believe it's not possible with the CM in place

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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:** [June 3, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-management-questions/179617/5 "2019-06-03T13:26:45Z")

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