# Is there support for selecting containers other than by container id?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-support-for-selecting-containers-other-than-by-container-id/168125>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** docker, filebeat\
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-support-for-selecting-containers-other-than-by-container-id/168125 "2019-02-12T23:43:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tiago\_Silva1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Tiago\_Silva1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tiago_Silva1)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-support-for-selecting-containers-other-than-by-container-id/168125/4 "2019-03-08T14:51:18Z")

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Another similar post is this one: [Problem getting autodiscover docker to work with filebeat](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-getting-autodiscover-docker-to-work-with-filebeat/144349/11)

In the last reply states the same doubt i am having, how to use filebeat input together with autodiscover, and then filter only a specific container with certain name and new ones appearing with the same container image.

(This would be helpfull also because there are containers like filebeat that i dont want to get inputs from),

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