# \[Elastic Agent 7.14\] \[Kubernetes provider\] How to dedot labels and annotations
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-14-kubernetes-provider-how-to-dedot-labels-and-annotations/281230
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** docker, elastic-agent
**Created:** [August 12, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-14-kubernetes-provider-how-to-dedot-labels-and-annotations/281230 "2021-08-12T16:00:46Z")
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### Author:  [@mohsen0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohsen0)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-14-kubernetes-provider-how-to-dedot-labels-and-annotations/281230/1 "2021-08-12T16:00:46Z")
I deploy the stand-alone elastic agent using the following
([Run Elastic Agent standalone on Kubernetes | Fleet User Guide [7.14] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/7.14/running-on-kubernetes-standalone.html)).
if the pods are labeled or annotated by labels with . in their name. it will break.
it seems in order to cover this use case, the dodot functionality was added in filebeat, but there is no way to configure it in the elastic agent.
```json
[
elastic_agent.filebeatfilebeat-json.log
][warn] Cannot index event publisher.Event{Content:beat.Event{Timestamp:time.Time{wall:0xc03d6b5fe0269493, ext:2361610274600,
loc:(*time.Location)(0x5576497ef2a0)}, Meta:{"raw_index":"logs-container-default"}, Fields:
{"agent":{"ephemeral_id":"c255a32b-65aa-4be1-aa2d-15c0330c10c7","hostname":"ip-10-3-1-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal","id":"4ac41a4c-9077-48d5-81fb-c7425a76a34a","name":"ip-10-3-1-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal","type":"filebeat","version":"7.14.0"},"cloud":{"account":{"id":"xxxxxx"},"availability_zone":"eu-west-1a","image":{"id":"ami-xxxxx"},"instance":{"id":"i-xxxx"},"machine":{"type":"m5.2xlarge"},"provider":"aws","region":"eu-west-1","service":{"name":"EC2"}},"data_stream":{"dataset":"container","namespace":"default","type":"logs"},"ecs":{"version":"1.10.0"},"elastic_agent":{"id":"4ac41a4c-9077-48d5-81fb-c7425a76a34a","snapshot":false,"version":"7.14.0"},"event":{"dataset":"container"},"host":{"architecture":"x86_64","containerized":true,"hostname":"ip-10-3-1-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal","id":"bb43eb848699cf59adb70cc299cb4597","ip":["10.3.1.85","fe80::4b8:55ff:fee8:1b03","10.3.1.160"],"name":"ip-10-3-1-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal","os":{"codename":"Core","family":"redhat","kernel":"4.14.232-177.418.amzn2.x86_64","name":"CentOS Linux","platform":"centos","type":"linux","version":"7 (Core)"}},"input":{"type":"log"},"kubernetes":{"container":{"id":"15c9590f50c0ef82bf79f792dcd09c1cae162ca171a84612ef7b0be40c49b9f4","image":"docker.elastic.co/beats/elastic-agent:7.14.0","name":"elastic-agent","runtime":"docker"},"namespace":"elastic-system","pod":{"ip":"10.3.1.85","labels":{"app":"elastic-agent","controller-revision-hash":"84777585d7","pod-template-generation":"4"},"name":"elastic-agent-cbbz9","uid":"ad199031-fe74-4812-9be2-a792c00a860f"}},"log":{"file":{"path":"/var/log/containers/elastic-agent-cbbz9_elastic-system_elastic-agent-15c9590f50c0ef82bf79f792dcd09c1cae162ca171a84612ef7b0be40c49b9f4.log"},"offset":46915},"message":"{\"log\":\"2021-08-12T14:53:50.870Z\\u0009INFO\\u0009application/periodic.go:101\\u0009No configuration change\\n\",\"stream\":\"stderr\",\"time\":\"2021-08-12T14:53:50.870498824Z\"}"},
Private:file.State{Id:"native::117529023-66305", PrevId:"", Finished:false, Fileinfo:(*os.fileStat)(0xc000e35380), Source:"/var/log/containers/elastic-agent-cbbz9_elastic-system_elastic-agent-15c9590f50c0ef82bf79f792dcd09c1cae162ca171a84612ef7b0be40c49b9f4.log", Offset:47082, Timestamp:time.Time{wall:0xc03d6911c3a294c1, ext:1131861943, loc:(*time.Location)(0x5576497ef2a0)}, TTL:-1, Type:"log", Meta:map[string]string(nil), FileStateOS:file.StateOS{Inode:0x70159bf, Device:0x10301}, IdentifierName:"native"}, TimeSeries:false}, Flags:0x1, Cache:publisher.EventCache{m:common.MapStr(nil)}}
(status=400): {"type":"mapper_parsing_exception",
"reason":"object mapping for [kubernetes.pod.labels.app] tried to parse field [app] as object, but found a concrete value"}
```
is there a way to dedot the labels and annotation?
Thanks
Elasitc agent Kubernetes provider : [Variables and conditions in input configurations | Fleet User Guide [7.14] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/fleet/7.14/dynamic-input-configuration.html#kubernetes-provider)
Filebeat Kubernetes provider: [Autodiscover | Filebeat Reference [7.14] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-autodiscover.html#_kubernetes)
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### Author:  [@blaker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blaker)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-14-kubernetes-provider-how-to-dedot-labels-and-annotations/281230/2 "2021-08-13T01:40:19Z")
This seems like a real bug and needs to be fixed. Can you file a bug?
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### Author:  [@mohsen0](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohsen0)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2021, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-14-kubernetes-provider-how-to-dedot-labels-and-annotations/281230/3 "2021-08-13T09:05:36Z")
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> \- Version: Elastic Agent 7.14
> \- Operating System: Kubernetes 1.18, Linux nodes
> …
> \- Discuss Forum URL: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-14-kubernetes-provider-how-to-dedot-labels-and-annotations/281230
> \- Steps to Reproduce:
> Deploy the standalone elasitc agent using what was provided in the docs, it will fail for the pods that have standard kuberntes labels. like app.kubernetes.io/name
> Kubernetes recommended labels: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/common-labels/
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-7-14-kubernetes-provider-how-to-dedot-labels-and-annotations/281230/4 "2021-09-10T11:05:54Z")
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