# 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")
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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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