# How to handle case when the INDEX value is not included in the "path" value?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-handle-case-when-the-index-value-is-not-included-in-the-path-value/68510>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 9, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-handle-case-when-the-index-value-is-not-included-in-the-path-value/68510 "2016-12-09T04:56:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![chunji08](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@chunji08](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chunji08)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-handle-case-when-the-index-value-is-not-included-in-the-path-value/68510/3 "2016-12-12T19:36:38Z")

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Hi All,  
Our system is used by multiple users every day to submit different jobs. And when one job is being processed, we would like to have logsatsh to do a real-time analysis if some log message is raised. And if it does, we would have such log message indexed per the current job-id.

As you can see the sample I put at the buttom. This is type of message the "Indexer Logstash" is given, where the "path" does not carry the job-id value. The actual value is kept in a property file. I have followed this link,  
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> [@How to read the file from linux machine in logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-read-the-file-from-linux-machine-in-logstash/57691):
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> For reading the file from window machine I am using the following input filter and able to read the file from remote machine and writing to elasticsearch similarly I want to read the file from linux machine. input { file { type =\> "appname" path =\> "\IP Address/path/csvresultfolder/\*.csv" start\_position =\> "beginning" sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null" } } Can we refer the hostname specified in properties file in logstash file,Please let me know.for example properties file name is user.prop…

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to have the value set in my env, and have the shipper.conf read. And that is why you see the "tag" is giving the unique job-id (36293300) now.  
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{  
"path" =\> "/user/logs/work/TOP/SFO/aaa/bbb/logs/server.out",  
"message" =\> " my log messages here ..."  
"type" =\> "sjc",  
"tags" =\> [  
[0] "36293300"  
]  
}  
",

So overall, this problem has been solved and this news group is very helpful for us.

Thanks a lot for the help.

CJ

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