# Logstash tags conditional issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-tags-conditional-issue/171349>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-tags-conditional-issue/171349 "2019-03-07T16:16:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![a.sailor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a.sailor/32/38567_2.png) [@a.sailor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a.sailor)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-tags-conditional-issue/171349/1 "2019-03-07T16:16:06Z")

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Hi all,  
i'm trying to accomplish one very simple thing, but i'm now stuck.  
This is my basic logstash pipeline:

```
input {
beats {
port => 5044
 }
 }

### FILTER SECTION ###

filter {

if "cms-access" in [tags] {
grok {
match => { "message" => "%{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:syslog_timestamp} %{DATA:app} %{GREEDYDATA:address} %{IP:ip} - - %{NUMBER:response} %{GREEDYDATA:request} %{QS:agent}" }
}
}
}

output {

if "cms-access" in [tags] {

        elasticsearch {
                    hosts => ["es_data1", "es_data2"]
                    index => "logstash-cms-access-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"

         }
    }
}

```

But, obviously, nothing is ingested in Elasticsearch (i tried without if condition and it works).  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-tags-conditional-issue/171349/2 "2019-03-07T17:44:30Z")

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It works without the conditional? What does the tags field look like in elasticsearch when it works? (Or Kibana on the JSON tab.)

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**Author:** ![a.sailor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/a.sailor/32/38567_2.png) [@a.sailor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a.sailor)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-tags-conditional-issue/171349/3 "2019-03-08T08:20:54Z")

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Hi Badger,

thanks for your reply.  
Without conditional it works and it set tag according to filebeat.

I set the tag in Filebeat, so:

```
- type: log
  enabled: true
  tags: ["cms-access"]
  paths:
     - /logs/httpd/**/cms_com/access
```

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-tags-conditional-issue/171349/4 "2019-03-08T13:02:23Z")

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What does the tags field look like in the JSON tab in Kibana when you remove the conditional?

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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:** [April 5, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-tags-conditional-issue/171349/5 "2019-04-05T13:02:29Z")

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