Filtering incoming data based on field

Hi,

I implemented an ELK Stack about a week ago and we have received over 16 million entries which a majority is not necessarily useful and we are looking into filtering it out.

Our incoming data is syslog and there is a field called syslog_program which we want to filter with as a majority of our incoming data has RT_FLOW as syslog_program.

How can I tell Logstash to discard any RT_FLOW's so they are not saved and take up storage on our server?

What's already there is fine, we just want to make sure in the future RT_FLOW's are ignored as they are the majority and useless.

Figured it out, sorry

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-drop.html

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