# Capturing Logstash version as a field?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capturing-logstash-version-as-a-field/169895>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 25, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capturing-logstash-version-as-a-field/169895 "2019-02-25T19:22:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![londonx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/da6949/32.png) [@londonx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/londonx)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capturing-logstash-version-as-a-field/169895/1 "2019-02-25T19:22:22Z")

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I notice on startup the Logstash version is reported, however I don't see this logged in a field like you see with Elastic beats. Is this some sort of environment variable that I can capture into a field instead?

Logstash startup outout:  
`[INFO][logstash.runner] Starting Logstash {"logstash.version"=>"6.4.2"}`

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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:** [March 25, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capturing-logstash-version-as-a-field/169895/2 "2019-03-25T19:22:33Z")

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