# Metricbeat: configure (or reset) host.id

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-configure-or-reset-host-id/274925
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring, metricbeat
**Created:** [June 3, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-configure-or-reset-host-id/274925 "2021-06-03T21:38:34Z")
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### Author: ![BradVido](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bradvido/32/741_2.png) [@BradVido](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BradVido)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-configure-or-reset-host-id/274925/4 "2021-06-08T21:34:47Z")

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@simianhacker thanks for the tip. That did work!

But I now realize that the actual field I need to update is the `logstash_stats.logstash.uuid` field, which is the same across two of my instances.

I found the solution here for anyone else with this problem [Logstash Monitoring API - - #2 by chrisronline](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-monitoring-api/213286/2)

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