# Collecting less information **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [December 7, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collecting-less-information/36545 "2015-12-07T15:24:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![michaellizhou](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michaellizhou/32/4143_2.png) [@michaellizhou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaellizhou)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collecting-less-information/36545/1 "2015-12-07T15:24:25Z")
It seems we can enable 3 features which will capture lots of data. Is there anyway to fine tune this without logstash? Trying to save diskspace 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collecting-less-information/36545/2 "2015-12-07T15:59:01Z")
We are working on a filtering concept here: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/451](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/451) And for filebeat, include and exclude lines was just introduced: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/430](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/430) This feature is not release yet, so you would have to use the nightly build. ---
**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collecting-less-information/36545/3 "2015-12-07T16:00:22Z")
In addition, topbeat specific, you can select via a set of regexps which processes to collect information for. The bulk of the data collected is usually process data, so this is a very good way to reduce disk space. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/collecting-less-information/36545/4 "2017-07-05T21:57:41Z")