# Filebeat: how to pass file properties to Logstash?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-how-to-pass-file-properties-to-logstash/108289>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 19, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-how-to-pass-file-properties-to-logstash/108289 "2017-11-19T15:08:29Z")\
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Instead of storing the information in the file itself, you could store the "meta" information in the filebeat config for the file as a workaround.

The meta data enrichment on the filebeat side could be done through a processor. We already have processors to enrich events with meta information from docker for example.

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