# Filebeat Fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fields/37751
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [December 22, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fields/37751 "2015-12-22T11:41:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fields/37751/1 "2015-12-22T11:41:38Z")
Hi,
Can I ask, what is the difference between [filebeat.name](http://filebeat.name) and filebeat.hostname? They have the same value for each host I collect from.
Regards,
David
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### Author:  [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fields/37751/2 "2015-12-22T12:17:57Z")
filebeat.hostname contains always the hostname and [filebeat.name](http://filebeat.name) contains what you configure under shipper-\>name. By default, [filebeat.name](http://filebeat.name) takes the hostname as value, so it has the same value as filebeat.hostname. The idea is that you use the "name" to group a set of Filebeat instances and "hostname" to differentiate between them. It's true that for basic installations, the same information is exported twice.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fields/37751/3 "2017-07-05T21:57:20Z")