# Metricbeat VSPHERE

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vsphere/108115
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vsphere/108115 "2017-11-17T10:58:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![adelbot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adelbot/32/30769_2.png) [@adelbot](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adelbot)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vsphere/108115/1 "2017-11-17T10:58:48Z")

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We are looking for 1 new feature:  
Is it possible ?

- Add metrics in field.yml and not in the code

for example:  
we want :

- field named folder with the path of the vm from the datacenter
- field name host with the name of the host of the virtualmachine

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### Author: ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vsphere/108115/2 "2017-11-17T13:58:57Z")

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Yes, you can modify fields.yml. With beats 6.0 the Elasticsearch template mapping and the Kibana index pattern are dynamically generated from fields.yml.

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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: [December 15, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-vsphere/108115/3 "2017-12-15T13:59:51Z")

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