# How to Consolidate filebeat.prospector properties

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-consolidate-filebeat-prospector-properties/178689>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 26, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-consolidate-filebeat-prospector-properties/178689 "2019-04-26T16:19:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![thadc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@thadc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thadc)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-consolidate-filebeat-prospector-properties/178689/1 "2019-04-26T16:19:35Z")

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Hello, below is a hypothetical prospector setup. Many parameters are unique to a given prospector but some are identical (for instance, the multiline params). Is there a way to configure the filebeat.yml to extract the shared params into some roll up location? Thanks for any response.

filebeat.propectors:

- type: log  
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeA\*.log  
multiline.pattern: '[0-9]  
multiline.negate: true  
multiline.match: after  
ignore\_older: 72h  
scan\_frequency: 10s  
pipeline: "pipelineA"  
fields\_under\_root: true  
fields:  
logtype: TYPEA
- type: log  
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeB\*.log  
multiline.pattern: '[0-9]  
multiline.negate: true  
multiline.match: after  
ignore\_older: 72h  
scan\_frequency: 10s  
pipeline: "pipelineB"  
fields\_under\_root: true  
fields:  
logtype: TYPEB
- type: log  
paths:
- /tmp/log/typeC\*.log  
multiline.pattern: '[0-9]  
multiline.negate: true  
multiline.match: after  
ignore\_older: 72h  
scan\_frequency: 10s  
pipeline: "pipelineC"  
fields\_under\_root: true  
fields:  
logtype: TYPEC

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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:** [May 24, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-consolidate-filebeat-prospector-properties/178689/2 "2019-05-24T16:34:38Z")

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