# Heartbeat configure host metadata

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-configure-host-metadata/187634>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [June 26, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-configure-host-metadata/187634 "2019-06-26T16:54:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luis\_Pereira1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luis_pereira1/32/43046_2.png) [@Luis\_Pereira1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luis_Pereira1)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-configure-host-metadata/187634/1 "2019-06-26T16:54:31Z")

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Hi everyone,

Anyone tried to configure the processor add-observer\_metadata, i'm trying to configure this for specific hosts but i dont know how i can archieve this and how can i remove the icmp:// from the url field

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/8/084ccb9ae4489d05920a458086d167239c86c644.png)

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-configure-host-metadata/187634/2 "2019-06-28T11:34:28Z")

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The protocol cannot be removed from the URL field. It is part of any well structured URL.

The `add_observer_metadata` config is well documented here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/add-observer-metadata.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/heartbeat/current/add-observer-metadata.html)

If you continue to have problems please share your config here so we can diagnose it.

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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 26, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/heartbeat-configure-host-metadata/187634/3 "2019-07-26T11:34:41Z")

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