# Logstash Adds unwanted records **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [May 26, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-adds-unwanted-records/87298 "2017-05-26T21:35:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lorenc\_Hysi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Lorenc\_Hysi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lorenc_Hysi)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-adds-unwanted-records/87298/1 "2017-05-26T21:35:09Z")
Hello, I have logstash with the following config: Kafka Input Filter metrics Syslog Output File Output Logstash is reading from a kafka topic as type plain However at different points in time after it has consumed some messages in kafka Logstash will also spit out the following line: May 26 21:09:00 %{host} LOGSTASH[-]: "_actual name of host_" This lines are not present in the kafka topics so why is Logstash creating these records, and how can i stop it from happening? Also another question. How can i actually have the %{host} display the actual host instead of %{host} ---
**Author:** ![Lorenc\_Hysi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Lorenc\_Hysi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lorenc_Hysi)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-adds-unwanted-records/87298/2 "2017-05-26T22:02:29Z")
This seems to be happening every 5 seconds btw. Could this be related to the filter? or some other option in logstash that does anything every 5 seconds? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-adds-unwanted-records/87298/3 "2017-06-23T22:02:40Z")
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