# Environment name instead of hostname

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/environment-name-instead-of-hostname/305359>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 22, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/environment-name-instead-of-hostname/305359 "2022-05-22T20:06:47Z")\
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No, you will not have the value replacement. Instead you will additional field/tag which will help in the filtering. You will have to modify the dashboard based on named fields.  
Use fields.env or fields.hostalias to add a hostname alias.

If you want to replace the value use script processor [link](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/find-and-replace-string-in-message-field/253574)

> **[Script Processor | Metricbeat Reference \[8.2\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/processor-script.html)**

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