# Docker hints based autodiscover custom label
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hints-based-autodiscover-custom-label/200999
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [September 25, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hints-based-autodiscover-custom-label/200999 "2019-09-25T09:10:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jbws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbws)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hints-based-autodiscover-custom-label/200999/1 "2019-09-25T09:10:44Z")
Can I create a custom label in my container and then choose an index based on that?
For example co.elastic.logs/environment=staging
I have test and staging applications running in the same cluster that need to log to different indices.
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### Author:  [@jbws](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbws)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hints-based-autodiscover-custom-label/200999/2 "2019-09-25T13:12:37Z")
Resolved myself.
For anyone else wanting to know...
Create a label on the container. I used co.elastic.logs/index
In the filebeat config choose index based on the label.
output.elasticsearch:
indices:
- index: "indexname-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}"
when.equals:
docker.container.labels.co\_elastic\_logs/index: "indexname"
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docker-hints-based-autodiscover-custom-label/200999/3 "2019-10-23T13:12:47Z")
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