# Beats adds a tag

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-adds-a-tag/54288>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [June 29, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-adds-a-tag/54288 "2016-06-29T14:01:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![muhamadli302](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@muhamadli302](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/muhamadli302)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-adds-a-tag/54288/1 "2016-06-29T14:01:53Z")

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Hi,

I'm using Logstash 2.1.  
This is my input conf:

```
input {
    beats {
        port => 5044
        type => "l2tcsv"
        codec => "plain"
    }
}

```

and in kibana, I see that it created a tag "beats\_input\_codec\_plain\_applied"  
Why was this added and how can I get rid of it?  
thanks?

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**Author:** ![theuntergeek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/theuntergeek/32/44961_2.png) [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-adds-a-tag/54288/2 "2016-06-29T15:04:01Z")

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Try the [mutate](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-mutate.html#plugins-filters-mutate-remove_tag) filter's `remove_tag` directive:

```auto
filter {
  mutate {
    remove_tag => ["beats_input_codec_plain_applied"]
  }
}

```

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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, 4:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-adds-a-tag/54288/3 "2017-07-06T04:50:24Z")

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