# Disable metricbeat categories **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [April 30, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-metricbeat-categories/230623 "2020-04-30T18:59:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![perfecto25](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/perfecto25/32/38070_2.png) [@perfecto25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/perfecto25)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-metricbeat-categories/230623/1 "2020-04-30T18:59:59Z")
Hello, We have metricbeat 7.6 on Centos 7 hosts, we are getting all kinds of metrics Is there a way to turn off certain metrics that I dont need for example CouchDB, Apache, AWS, Ceph, Redis, Traefik, etc Im only interested in system + network, but Mbeat comes with so much out of box data that its uncncessary. How do I turn off these categories? Thanks. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/2/525cc48ddbb234f284946c84fc88229fbb5cc881.png) ---
**Author:** ![ChrsMark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chrsmark/32/55858_2.png) [@ChrsMark](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ChrsMark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-metricbeat-categories/230623/2 "2020-05-04T10:50:36Z")
Hi @perfecto25! I'm afraid you cannot get rid of these since these come from the stored mappings for the known fields of Metricbeat. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-metricbeat-categories/230623/3 "2020-06-01T11:04:40Z")
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