Conditional statements in filebeat.yml

[mikemadden42]

We currently have filebeat setup on a Windows node that is hosting several web apps. The filebeat.yml is very similar to this. I've sanitized host and application names.

filebeat.inputs:
- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
      - C:\\inetpub\\logs\\*.txt
filebeat.config.modules:
  path: ${path.config}/modules.d/*.yml
  reload.enabled: false
setup.template.settings:
  index.number_of_shards: 3
tags: ["WINWEB"]
fields:
  application_ID: "APP_ID"
  version_ID: "1.0"
  environment_ID: "test"
fields_under_root: true
setup.kibana:
  host: "https://kibana:5601"
output.logstash:
  hosts: ["ingest1:25000", "ingest2:25000"]
  loadbalance: true
  ssl.certificate_authorities: [ "D:/apps/elasticstack/filebeat/root.ca.crt", "D:/apps/elasticstack/filebeat/intermediate.ca.crt" ]
  ssl.certificate: "D:/apps/elasticstack/filebeat/WINWEB.crt"
  ssl.key: "D:/apps/elasticstack/filebeat/WINWEB.key.pem"

Does filebeat.yml support conditional statements? For example, could I do something like the following to set the application_ID to be used later on in logstash pipelines?

if path == C:\\inetpub\\logs\\scheduling.txt {
fields:
  application_ID: "SCHEDULING"
  version_ID: "1.0"
  environment_ID: "test"
}
else if path == C:\\inetpub\\logs\\reporting.txt {
fields:
  application_ID: "REPORTING"
  version_ID: "1.0"
  environment_ID: "test"
}
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[shaunak (Shaunak Kashyap)]

Why not specify two inputs in your filebeat.yml, something like so:

filebeat.inputs:

- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - C:\\inetpub\\logs\\scheduling.txt
  fields:
    application_ID: "SCHEDULING"
    version_ID: "1.0"
    environment_ID: "test"

- type: log
  enabled: true
  paths:
    - C:\\inetpub\\logs\\reporting.txt
  fields:
    application_ID: "REPORTING"
    version_ID: "1.0"
    environment_ID: "test"