# Multiple files from beats to logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-beats-to-logstash/67966
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 4, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-beats-to-logstash/67966 "2016-12-04T23:31:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@bob-bza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob-bza)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-beats-to-logstash/67966/1 "2016-12-04T23:31:30Z")
i have multiple files i was trying to index all those with different index's , i was wondering how can i manage those.
filebeat i was forwarding to logstash and then output to elastic search.
Example:
/var/log/file1
/var/log/file2
.
.
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/var/log/filen
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### Author:  [@bob-bza](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bob-bza)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-beats-to-logstash/67966/2 "2016-12-04T23:35:45Z")
i was not sure where i have to tag to filebeat or logstash so , i posted in both forums
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-beats-to-logstash/67966/3 "2016-12-05T15:38:30Z")
you can compute a field in LS and store it for example in `[@metadata][index]` . Use the field to configure the index (see filebeat -\> LS getting started docs for example ES output config). This way you don't have to tag and filter (if-else) things like crazy.
All fields stored under `@metadata` will be ignored when indexing to ES.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-files-from-beats-to-logstash/67966/4 "2017-01-02T15:39:09Z")
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