# Help: How to filter unwanted metadata and fields from filebeats

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-how-to-filter-unwanted-metadata-and-fields-from-filebeats/245685
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-how-to-filter-unwanted-metadata-and-fields-from-filebeats/245685 "2020-08-19T23:01:46Z")
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### Author: ![Moksha20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Moksha20](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moksha20)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2020, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-how-to-filter-unwanted-metadata-and-fields-from-filebeats/245685/7 "2020-09-10T06:18:10Z")

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Hi Aaron,

Thanks a lot for the help...  
Can I ask you for another help... with below topic

> [@Filebeat log ingestion and scan frequency](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-log-ingestion-and-scan-frequency/248113):
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> Hi Expert and Team, Could you please help me with the log ingestion from filebeat.There are two scenarios 1)My logs are created in 15 minutes frequency in the same name and replace the older one.what should my .yml file should be ?? as the older one gets deleted with new one what time setting should I use?? 2)To avoid the above setting I am renaming the file with timestamp and keeping files of 1 day(which costing me disk spaces though)..but problem whenever a new file is getting creating it …

Thanks Again,  
Moksha

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