# Filebeat autodiscovery appenders **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [August 1, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619 "2018-08-01T16:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nick\_Carn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nick\_Carn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Carn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/1 "2018-08-01T16:07:30Z")
Hi there, I am using filebeat with autodiscovery and would like to use appenders. However the appender config is not being applied. This is my filebeat.yml config. ``` filebeat.autodiscover: providers: - type: kubernetes templates: - condition: equals: kubernetes.namespace: default config: - type: docker containers.ids: - "${data.kubernetes.container.id}" appenders: - type: config condition.equals: kubernetes.container.name: "spring-boot" config: tags: ["spring"] output.logstash: hosts: ["192.168.16.119:5044"] ``` Thanks for any help. Nick ---
**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/2 "2018-08-01T16:48:33Z")
It appears that the indentation is wrong, `appenders` should be at the same level as `templates`. So the docs at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.3/configuration-autodiscover-advanced.html#\_appenders](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.3/configuration-autodiscover-advanced.html#_appenders) are also wrong. Could you please open a [new Github issue](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/new) for the documentation. ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Carn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nick\_Carn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Carn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/3 "2018-08-01T17:14:29Z")
I will. Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Carn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nick\_Carn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Carn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/4 "2018-08-02T09:35:18Z")
Hello, Now i get this error: `2018-08-02T09:31:12.703Z ERROR instance/beat.go:691 Exiting: unknown autodiscover appender config` With the following config. ``` filebeat.autodiscover: providers: - type: kubernetes templates: - condition: equals: kubernetes.namespace: default config: - type: docker containers.ids: - "${data.kubernetes.container.id}" appenders: - type: config condition.equals: kubernetes.container.name: "spring-boot" config: tags: ["spring"] output.logstash: hosts: ["192.168.16.119:5044"] ``` Any ideas? Thank you, Nick ---
**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/5 "2018-08-02T13:59:03Z")
Hi @Nick_Carn, What version of Filebeat are you using? `config` appender was introduced in version 6.3 ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Carn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nick\_Carn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Carn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/6 "2018-08-02T14:24:51Z")
Hi @exekias, I am using 6.3.1 root@vpm-filebeat-w4k8h:/# /opt/filebeat/filebeat version filebeat version 6.3.1 (amd64), libbeat 6.3.1 [ed42bb85e72ae58cc09748dc1825159713e0ffd4 built 2018-06-29 21:09:35 +0000 UTC] ---
**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/7 "2018-08-02T14:32:33Z")
This looks like a bug, could you please open a new bug report? I will have a look to it: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues) ---
**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/8 "2018-08-02T14:41:57Z")
Sorry for the inconvenience, I went ahead and opened a fix for this: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/7846](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/7846) ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Carn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nick\_Carn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Carn)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/9 "2018-08-02T17:09:45Z")
Cool thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-autodiscovery-appenders/142619/10 "2018-08-30T17:22:22Z")
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