From db5eb1cd3af5112409c59db5a50bfea7ad5a88ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kroh <andrew.kroh@elastic.co>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:19:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update metricbeat field docs

---
 metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc b/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
index 82bdce6ea1e..0e3d1530349 100644
--- a/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
+++ b/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
@@ -4631,7 +4631,8 @@ Contains common beat fields available in all event types.
 *`agent.hostname`*::
 +
 --
-Hostname of the agent.
+Deprecated - use agent.name or agent.id to identify an agent. Hostname of the agent.
+
 
 type: keyword