# Different output for different hosts

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-output-for-different-hosts/53776>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-output-for-different-hosts/53776 "2016-06-23T12:25:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![f3rdy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/f3rdy/32/10502_2.png) [@f3rdy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/f3rdy)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-output-for-different-hosts/53776/1 "2016-06-23T12:25:38Z")

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Hi,

I'm not sure, if beats is the right place to put my question here, maybe it's also logstash or elasticsearch or kibana...

For explanation: I run top beat on two different hosts and an ELK stack on another host. I use the topbeat-dashboard from the examples and run on a search for topbeat-\*. Since the two hosts (say jcl02, jcl03) topbeat to elastic directly (didn't get filters and stuff to work with logstash yet) , they will be shown on the dashboard together. Worse than that, cpu load averages are calculated together, while I just want to have the results of the single hosts.

My question: Is it somehow possible to have a dashboard for each of the jcl\* hosts, so I can gather average values from each host separately?

Thanks,  
Fred

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-output-for-different-hosts/53776/2 "2016-06-23T14:30:44Z")

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Options might be using a search or some [kibana field filter](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/discover.html#field-filter). kibana dashboards can be bookmarked. The bookmark will contain the search filter and all settings.

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**Author:** ![mourlos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mourlos/32/10788_2.png) [@mourlos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mourlos)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-output-for-different-hosts/53776/3 "2016-06-23T20:10:39Z")

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Hi,

Since they are both going to elasticsearch, you can specify the index that they will be written to.  
Have a look here : [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/topbeat/current/elasticsearch-output.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/topbeat/current/elasticsearch-output.html)  
It is straight forward.

As you said, the other option would be to go through logstash where you can specify the output with many different ways.

Hope it helps.

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**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-output-for-different-hosts/53776/4 "2016-06-26T21:32:01Z")

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You can simply visualize the dashboard with data coming from a single host by using the search box from the dashboard. You can try using the filter: `beat.name: jcl02` and the data in your dashboard will be updated with info coming from `jcl02`. You can save the dashboard view to something like `Topbeat Dashbord - jcl02` by clicking on the `Save` button and pass a different name.

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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:** [July 14, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/different-output-for-different-hosts/53776/5 "2016-07-14T12:25:54Z")

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