# How to exclude other namespaces?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-exclude-other-namespaces/246544>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, filebeat\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-exclude-other-namespaces/246544 "2020-08-27T04:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jsoriano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsoriano/32/27920_2.png) [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-exclude-other-namespaces/246544/3 "2020-08-27T11:23:02Z")

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Hey @wajika,

In your configuration you are using a path with a wildcard that would match all the containers in the node. So every configuration generated, for every pod, will try to harvest any file. You need to setup autodiscover in a way that it generates an specific configuration for each container. Also, when using autodiscover, you don't need to use `add_kubernetes_metadata`, events should be already enriched by the autodiscover provider.

I think that something like this would work for you:

```auto
filebeat.autodiscover:
  providers:
    - type: kubernetes
      node: ${NODE_NAME}
      templates:
        - condition:
            or:
              - equals:
                  kubernetes.namespace: "front"
              - equals:
                  kubernetes.namespace: "back"
          config:
            - type: container
              paths:
                - "/var/log/containers/*-${data.kubernetes.container.id}.log"
setup.template.enabled: false
processors:
  - add_cloud_metadata:
  - add_host_metadata:

output.elasticsearch:
  hosts: ${ELASTICSEARCH_HOST}

```

Other option could be to use hints-based autodiscover, that would allow you to enable collection of logs per namespace using annotations in the namespaces themselves. See my comment about that on this topic: [Collect logs for specific containers or namespace in Openshift/Kubernetes](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collect-logs-for-specific-containers-or-namespace-in-openshift-kubernetes/232417/2)

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