# Categorize the servers on Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/categorize-the-servers-on-kibana/174187>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/categorize-the-servers-on-kibana/174187 "2019-03-27T18:36:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![syedsfayaz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/syedsfayaz/32/46657_2.png) [@syedsfayaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/syedsfayaz)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/categorize-the-servers-on-kibana/174187/1 "2019-03-27T18:36:52Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![pmercado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@pmercado](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmercado)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/categorize-the-servers-on-kibana/174187/2 "2019-03-28T08:12:15Z")

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Hi @syedsfayaz,

can you check if [add\_host\_metadata](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/master/add-host-metadata.html) might come handy at your scenario?

If you need your own fields, this thread sounds related

> [@Possible to add to @metadata?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-add-to-metadata/42592):
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> Is it possible to add information to the @metadata field? Or perhaps there's a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to do. I have multiple prospectors set up on each machine. Each prospector is consuming logs from specific applications of the system. On each prospector, I've configured the document\_type to describe the log file I'm consuming. They are basically named like this: "muffin\_debuglog", "biscuit\_debuglog", "jelly\_debuglog", etc. My logstash output is sending all these into o…

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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:** [April 25, 2019, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/categorize-the-servers-on-kibana/174187/3 "2019-04-25T08:12:16Z")

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