# Drop fields/Remove Fields in bulk is not working using mutate filter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drop-fields-remove-fields-in-bulk-is-not-working-using-mutate-filter/101710>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 25, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drop-fields-remove-fields-in-bulk-is-not-working-using-mutate-filter/101710 "2017-09-25T13:36:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![rkhapre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rkhapre/32/48333_2.png) [@rkhapre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkhapre)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drop-fields-remove-fields-in-bulk-is-not-working-using-mutate-filter/101710/1 "2017-09-25T13:36:10Z")

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Hi All

I have almost 50 fields which starts with

parsed.abc or [parsed][abc]  
parsed.xyz OR [parsed][xyz]  
parsed.dfg OR [parsed][dfg] etc....

I need to drop all those using mutate. I am able to drop them one by one but not in bulk. Have anyone tried bulk dropping,

This one field i can drop

```
 mutate {
    remove_field => ["tags"]
  }

```

How to drop field with multiple sub-fields as described above. I tried this one

```
 mutate {
    remove_field => ["[parsed]*"]
  }

```

This is not working for me

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drop-fields-remove-fields-in-bulk-is-not-working-using-mutate-filter/101710/2 "2017-09-25T13:50:58Z")

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Wildcards aren't supported. Doesn't

```
remove_field => ["[parsed]"]

```

work? Or do you want to keep some of the subfields?

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**Author:** ![rkhapre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rkhapre/32/48333_2.png) [@rkhapre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rkhapre)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drop-fields-remove-fields-in-bulk-is-not-working-using-mutate-filter/101710/3 "2017-09-25T15:38:28Z")

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This works perfectly. Thanks

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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:** [October 23, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/drop-fields-remove-fields-in-bulk-is-not-working-using-mutate-filter/101710/4 "2017-10-23T15:38:28Z")

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