# Can't Send @metadata to elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-metadata-to-elasticsearch/123066
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 8, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-metadata-to-elasticsearch/123066 "2018-03-08T12:46:33Z")
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### Author:  [@manya12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/manya12)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-metadata-to-elasticsearch/123066/1 "2018-03-08T12:46:33Z")
Hi Team,
I want to include @metadata field contents in my elasticsearch output.
This is the output when i am using stdout in my output filter-
{
"@timestamp" =\> 2018-03-08T08:17:42.059Z,
"thread\_name" =\> "SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-2",
"@metadata" =\> {
"dead\_letter\_queue" =\> {
"entry\_time" =\> 2018-03-08T08:17:50.082Z,
"reason" =\> "Could not index event to Elasticsearch. status: 400, action: ["index", {:\_id=\>nil, :\_index=\>"applog-2018.03.08", :\_type=\>"doc", :\_routing=\>nil}, #LogStash::Event:0x3ab79ab5], response: {"index"=\>{"\_index"=\>"applog-2018.03.08", "\_type"=\>"doc", "\_id"=\>"POuwBGIB0PJDPQOoDy1Q", "status"=\>400, "error"=\>{"type"=\>"mapper\_parsing\_exception", "reason"=\>"failed to parse [message]", "caused\_by"=\>{"type"=\>"illegal\_state\_exception", "reason"=\>"Can't get text on a START\_OBJECT at 1:223"}}}}",
"plugin\_type" =\> "elasticsearch",
"plugin\_id" =\> "7ee60ceccc2ef7c933cf5aa718d42f24a65b489e12a1e1c7b67ce82e04ef0d37"
}
},
"@version" =\> "1",
"beat" =\> {
"name" =\> "filebeat-kwjn6",
"version" =\> "6.0.0"
},
"dateOffset" =\> 408697,
"source" =\> "/var/log/applogs/spring-cloud-dataflow/Log.log",
"logger\_name" =\> "decurtis.dxp.deamon.JobConfiguration",
"message" =\> {
"timeStamp" =\> "2018-01-30",
"severity" =\> "ERROR",
"hostname" =\> "",
"commonUtility" =\> {},
"offset" =\> "Etc/UTC",
"messageCode" =\> "L\_9001",
"correlationId" =\> "ea5b13c3-d395-4fa5-8124-19902e400316",
"componentName" =\> "dxp-deamon-refdata-country",
"componentVersion" =\> "1",
"message" =\> "Unhandled exceptions",
},
"tags" =\> [
[0] "webapp-log",
[1] "beats\_input\_codec\_plain\_applied",
[2] "\_jsonparsefailure"
]
}
I want my @metadata field in elasticsearch output.
Below is my conf file:
input {
dead\_letter\_queue {
path =\> "/usr/share/logstash/data/dead\_letter\_queue"
commit\_offsets =\> true
pipeline\_id =\> "main"
}
}
filter {
json {
source =\> "message"
}
mutate {
rename =\> { "[@metadata][dead\_letter\_queue][reason]" =\> "reason" }
}
}
output {
elasticsearch {
hosts =\> "elasticsearch"
manage\_template =\> false
index =\> "deadletterlog-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
}
}
Now in my output there is a field called "reason" but without any content. Is there something i am missing.
I got idea to rename that field from [Sending @metadata from logstash to elastic search](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-metadata-from-logstash-to-elastic-search/92890) . @magnusbaeck Can you please help me with this? Is there something i am missing.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-send-metadata-to-elasticsearch/123066/2 "2018-04-05T12:46:40Z")
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