# Filebeat - don't add meta information

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-dont-add-meta-information/63984>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 26, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-dont-add-meta-information/63984 "2016-10-26T09:56:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![lolovarga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@lolovarga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lolovarga)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-dont-add-meta-information/63984/1 "2016-10-26T09:56:42Z")

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I'm configuring filebeat 5.0-RC1 to output to kafka. I would like filebeat to output to the kafka topic the lines in the log file verbatim, but some meta tags are added, such as: @timestamp and type.  
Is there any way to configure filebeat not to add this meta information?

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**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:** [October 26, 2016, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-dont-add-meta-information/63984/2 "2016-10-26T10:09:34Z")

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You can use filters to remove most of the meta fields. But for `@timestamp` I have to check if it can be filtered out with the Kafka output as it is one of the core fields of each event.

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-dont-add-meta-information/63984/3 "2016-10-26T10:48:46Z")

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the `@timestamp` field is at least required if kafka version 0.10 is configured.

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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:** [November 16, 2016, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-dont-add-meta-information/63984/4 "2016-11-16T09:56:52Z")

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