# Help to customizing Index and Type
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251 "2020-08-17T14:34:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Moksha20](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moksha20)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/1 "2020-08-17T14:34:30Z")
Hi,
I have migrated ELK 6.x to ELK 7.8.In previous version I used to ship log using logship.py where as now I have to use filebeats.
I am facing two issues here
1)'index' and 'type' I am getting as meta format that is as '\_index' and '\_type'.
How to get it without underscore??
2)In previous configuration I can easily define index and types..
ex: if I create a index name shopebill under the same index I can create 3 different types that is---
shopebill-stat
shopebill-item
shopebill-rate
But in the ne method when if I am defining the index I am not able to create different type under same index.
Can anybody help me to create that??
Thanks in advance...
#stack-elasticsearch, #stack-kibana, #stack-logstash, #stack-beats
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/2 "2020-08-17T23:19:59Z")
Are the original types you have the same document, with different values, or totally different document structures?
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### Author:  [@Moksha20](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moksha20)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/3 "2020-08-18T08:21:05Z")
It's a same document structure.
Somehow I manged to generate the type. but the index is still coming as \_index..
is there any way to remove the ' \_ '
Also after shipping the log I can see there are lots of unwanted field in the Kibana Logs.
Should I create a restrict it in the filter section of the lostash.conf?
If that is the case what should be the syntax(my goal is to only ship the fields I mentioned in my grok patterns for my message)??
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/4 "2020-08-18T20:40:48Z")
If they are the same structure, then just create a new field called `shopebill-type` and then assign the appropriate value to that in the doc.
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### Author:  [@Moksha20](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moksha20)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/5 "2020-08-19T14:22:27Z")
Hi Mate..
Can you help me with another issue as I am very new to this filebeat shipping thing.
Once I ship the log to kibana I am getting so many meta data field both for kibana and filebeat...now I can filter it in kibana visualisation but is there any way to filter out/exclude those field during log ingestion .
Thanks in advance..
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/6 "2020-08-19T21:40:17Z")
It'd be better to create a new topic on that one, just to keep things clear 🙂
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### Author:  [@Moksha20](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Moksha20)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/7 "2020-08-19T22:58:28Z")
sure.... post created
> [@Help: How to filter unwanted metadata and fields from filebeats](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-how-to-filter-unwanted-metadata-and-fields-from-filebeats/245685):
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> I am very new to this filebeat shipping thing. Once I ship the log to kibana I am getting so many meta data field both for kibana and filebeat...now I can filter it in kibana visualization but is there any way to filter out/exclude those field during log ingestion . Thanks in advance..
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-to-customizing-index-and-type/245251/8 "2020-09-16T22:58:37Z")
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