# Duplicate beat.uuids on different hosts

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-beat-uuids-on-different-hosts/218184
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, docker
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-beat-uuids-on-different-hosts/218184 "2020-02-06T13:34:42Z")
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#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/duplicate-beat-uuids-on-different-hosts/218184/3 "2020-02-07T14:46:21Z")

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Hi ropc,

Thanks for your reply, this was really helpful!

I'm not sure how meta.json could have been the same - I don't think we are deploying anything there but am looking into it.

However I tried deleting the meta.json and straightaway it generated unique UUIDs for each host. Both UUIDs are now showing up in the `.monitoring-beats` index, but not in the UI which is interesting. I have about 15 minutes of data so far, but even with the monitoring UI set to 5 minutes I don't see anything.

I'll send you the case number in a PM.

Thanks again!

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