# File meta data fields

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-meta-data-fields/51356
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [May 30, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-meta-data-fields/51356 "2016-05-30T23:08:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![wmcdonald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f6c823/32.png) [@wmcdonald](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wmcdonald)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-meta-data-fields/51356/1 "2016-05-30T23:08:53Z")

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We have a file that contains information written by another application. It only has one line, but doesn't contain any timestamp information. I'd like to use the timestamp on the file itself. In general, since filebeat is reading files, shouldn't it make some file metadata like (creationTime, modifiedTime, lastReadTime, creator, etc) available to the plugin as optional fields?

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-meta-data-fields/51356/2 "2016-05-31T03:41:55Z")

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This sounds like a reasonable request. Could you file an issue at [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new)?

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### Author: ![wmcdonald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f6c823/32.png) [@wmcdonald](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wmcdonald)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-meta-data-fields/51356/3 "2016-05-31T06:47:26Z")

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> [@wmcdonald](#):
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> We have a file that contains information written by another application. It only has one line, but doesn't contain any timestamp information. I'd like to use the timestamp on the file itself. In general, since filebeat is reading files, shouldn't it make some file metadata like (creationTime, modifiedTime, lastReadTime, creator, etc) available to the plugin as optional fields?

done.

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### Author: ![wmcdonald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f6c823/32.png) [@wmcdonald](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wmcdonald)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-meta-data-fields/51356/4 "2016-05-31T06:47:43Z")

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Done.

> <https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/1775>

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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 5, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-meta-data-fields/51356/5 "2017-07-05T21:51:22Z")

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