# What does the filter metavent do?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-the-filter-metavent-do/44937>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [March 20, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-the-filter-metavent-do/44937 "2016-03-20T23:44:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e36b37/32.png) [@jupp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jupp)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-the-filter-metavent-do/44937/1 "2016-03-20T23:44:46Z")

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I would like to understand what this plugin does . Can someone explain to me?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2016, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-the-filter-metavent-do/44937/2 "2016-03-20T23:49:32Z")

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I don't think anyone knows ☹

> <https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-filter-metaevent/issues/2>

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**Author:** ![jupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e36b37/32.png) [@jupp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jupp)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-the-filter-metavent-do/44937/3 "2016-03-21T00:00:37Z")

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Oh, ok.

Thank you for the note. I will follow this Issue 🙂

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-the-filter-metavent-do/44937/4 "2017-07-06T05:06:12Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 5:06am UTC