# Conditional statements in filebeat.yml

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-statements-in-filebeat-yml/173211>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [March 20, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-statements-in-filebeat-yml/173211 "2019-03-20T19:16:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![mikemadden42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mikemadden42/32/71277_2.png) [@mikemadden42](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikemadden42)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-statements-in-filebeat-yml/173211/1 "2019-03-20T19:16:46Z")

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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.

```auto
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?

```auto
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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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-statements-in-filebeat-yml/173211/2 "2019-03-20T22:46:37Z")

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

```auto
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"

```

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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 18, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditional-statements-in-filebeat-yml/173211/3 "2019-04-18T00:46:40Z")

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