Categorize the servers on Kibana

[syedsfayaz (fayaz)]

Hi

I have multiple Linux servers from which I am sending metric beats data to elastic search.

I can see a default dashboard created and under [System Overview] I can see a list of servers and when I click i get in to more details related to that server.

We have different Linux servers which belong to different environments. Is there a way I can categorize this based on environment. And when I click system Overview I see only those servers related to that environment. Coz We keep adding new servers so I dont want to manually add it to the filter.

[pmercado (PM)]

Hi @syedsfayaz,

can you check if add_host_metadata might come handy at your scenario?

If you need your own fields, this thread sounds related

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