# Can ElasticAgent/filebeat ingest a log/filestream input metadata as document data?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticagent-filebeat-ingest-a-log-filestream-input-metadata-as-document-data/305734
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [May 26, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticagent-filebeat-ingest-a-log-filestream-input-metadata-as-document-data/305734 "2022-05-26T16:38:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@bunjamins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bunjamins)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticagent-filebeat-ingest-a-log-filestream-input-metadata-as-document-data/305734/1 "2022-05-26T16:38:22Z")
specifically we have a legacy app that doesn't log a timestamp but logs to new files, is it possible to read file ctime as @timestamp?
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### Author:  [@mtojek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtojek)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticagent-filebeat-ingest-a-log-filestream-input-metadata-as-document-data/305734/2 "2022-05-30T15:12:35Z")
Hi,
I don't remind such feature in metricbeat, but maybe you can add a script in the middle to prepend timestamps?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elasticagent-filebeat-ingest-a-log-filestream-input-metadata-as-document-data/305734/3 "2022-06-27T17:13:10Z")
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