Add server name as field in the doc

[ninorito]

Hello,

We would like to use fscrawler on all our fileservers (around 100) to see the metrics about the fileshare size.

I don't see an option to add in the doc the name of the server where the fscrawler is running.

I'm thinking of launching locally on each server the crawler and send the datas to the same index. I need a way to find on which server the data are.

Are you planning to add this field or a way to do it ?

Now I'm using ingest pipeline to add this field but I need to create one per server....

Thank you

[dadoonet]

That could be a good addition. I believe we should add a similar feature that *Beat agents have which is a way to add any fixed field within the configuration file.
It's doable using the REST interface but I think we should expose a similar feature using the job configuration file.

[dadoonet]

Congrats BTW to have opened issue number 1000 😄

[janhoy]

See #1003 which is a flexible way of handling such custom requests which there will be 100s of in the future. It allows you to e.g. write a HostNameProcessor which fetches host name and adds it in a custom field in the document.