# How to set HTTP filter body to whole event
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-http-filter-body-to-whole-event/243041
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-http-filter-body-to-whole-event/243041 "2020-07-29T11:29:00Z")
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### Author:  [@bradley.king](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bradley.king)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-http-filter-body-to-whole-event/243041/1 "2020-07-29T11:29:00Z")
Hi guys, just a quick question. I can't seem to find the answer on the docs 😕
How do I reference the whole event in logstash?
I want to use the HTTP filter to send the whole event to one of our APIs for some quick analysis.
I have tried the below:
```auto
http {
id => "test-http-01"
url => "URL"
verb => "POST"
connect_timeout => 15
body => "%{[]}"
headers => { "Accept" => "application/json" "Content" => "application/json"}
target_body => "[test]"
target_headers => "[@metadata][test_response_headers]"
}
```
In other HTTP filters, I reference specific fields like `[server][name]` for example, but how to I get everything? `[]`?
Thanks in advanced!
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-http-filter-body-to-whole-event/243041/2 "2020-07-29T17:18:50Z")
I have not tested it, but you could try something like
```
ruby { code => 'event.set("[@metadata][body]", event.to_hash)' }
```
then use
```
body => "%{[@metadata][body]}"
```
You might also want to set the body\_format option.
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### Author:  [@bradley.king](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bradley.king)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-http-filter-body-to-whole-event/243041/3 "2020-07-29T21:16:07Z")
That worked great! Thank you 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-http-filter-body-to-whole-event/243041/4 "2020-08-26T21:16:08Z")
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