# Filebeat Logging configuration - filename

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logging-configuration-filename/76364>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [February 24, 2017, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logging-configuration-filename/76364 "2017-02-24T08:33:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suin\_You](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Suin\_You](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suin_You)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logging-configuration-filename/76364/1 "2017-02-24T08:33:06Z")

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Filebeat has [files.name](http://files.name) in [logging configuration](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-logging.html#_logging_format) and I wanna write log file name with date.  
ex. filebeat-log.2017-02-24, ...

Is it possible to write file with date like log4j?

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logging-configuration-filename/76364/2 "2017-02-27T11:25:55Z")

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This is currently not possible, but we are thinking about improving logging in the future. Could you open a feature request for this here? [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues)

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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:** [March 27, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-logging-configuration-filename/76364/3 "2017-03-27T11:26:05Z")

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