# Is there any automated way of updating the configuration in filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-automated-way-of-updating-the-configuration-in-filebeat/149658>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 24, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-automated-way-of-updating-the-configuration-in-filebeat/149658 "2018-09-24T11:52:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![anra137](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@anra137](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anra137)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-automated-way-of-updating-the-configuration-in-filebeat/149658/1 "2018-09-24T11:52:26Z")

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Hi, We have some static data which is unique to each log file. For example, service.name, service.version etc. This will change everytime new version is deployed. Changing the config each time on all the servers takes lot of time. Is there any automated way of doing this ?

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-automated-way-of-updating-the-configuration-in-filebeat/149658/2 "2018-09-25T06:01:12Z")

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We are working on a central management feature which could help here: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/7028](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/7028)

Could you share a bit more details on what this information is to see if there are other solutions? How do you add the info at the moment (`fields` ?)

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**Author:** ![anra137](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/97f17d/32.png) [@anra137](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anra137)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-automated-way-of-updating-the-configuration-in-filebeat/149658/3 "2018-09-25T10:40:35Z")

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Yes, We add info with fields and tags in filebeat config.

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-automated-way-of-updating-the-configuration-in-filebeat/149658/4 "2018-10-23T10:46:37Z")

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