# How to reference http poller data
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-http-poller-data/210915
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-http-poller-data/210915 "2019-12-06T16:00:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@raged](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raged)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-http-poller-data/210915/1 "2019-12-06T16:00:05Z")
I have logstash rigged up for two inputs, one for beats and the other for an http poller to further enrich beats data.
How do I reference the data that comes from the http\_poller input?
Here is my config for the inputs:
```
input {
beats {
port => 5044
client_inactivity_timeout => 300
}
http_poller {
urls => {
igridurl => {
method => get
user => "usr"
password => "pass"
url => "myurl"
headers => {
Accept => "application/json"
}
}
}
request_timeout => 60
schedule => {every => "3h"}
codec => "json"
metadata_target => "http_poller_metadata"
}
}
```
I have tried to add a field by using:
```
mutate {
add_field => {"HTTP_DATA" => "%{[http_poller_metadata]}"}
}
```
But that doesn't work, I literally get a field with `"%{[http_poller_metadata]}"` as the value...
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### Author:  [@raged](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raged)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-http-poller-data/210915/2 "2019-12-09T13:51:08Z")
I see one way of getting the data is to use a elasticsearch filter within logstash. Not really what I want to do, I was expecting to reference the data like I would when I use a jdbc\_static filter which references the data in memory.
I needed to actually add fields like:
`fields => { "@timestamp" => "started" }`
I also need to add:
`result_size => 40` as the default is 1.
It adds all results as an array
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-reference-http-poller-data/210915/3 "2020-01-06T13:51:11Z")
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