# Hide unused fields in Kibana Discover

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-unused-fields-in-kibana-discover/239058>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 29, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-unused-fields-in-kibana-discover/239058 "2020-06-29T05:34:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ajhstn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ajhstn/32/24629_2.png) [@ajhstn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ajhstn)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-unused-fields-in-kibana-discover/239058/1 "2020-06-29T05:34:19Z")

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Hi, not sure if this is Kibana or something else, but when displaying the Filebeat index using Kibana Discover, all fields are shown, even empty fields with no value. It usually, only shows fields that have data.

How do i "fix" this?

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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-unused-fields-in-kibana-discover/239058/2 "2020-07-01T11:04:10Z")

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Hi @ajhstn

Which version of Kibana are you using?

Best,  
Matthias

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**Author:** ![mcairney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@mcairney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mcairney)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-unused-fields-in-kibana-discover/239058/3 "2020-07-16T21:11:57Z")

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Hi,  
I'm seeing the same behaviour using the Filebeat Index template after upgrading from 7.7 to 7.8.

 ![Screenshot from 2020-07-16 18-18-17](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/1/e1fa955433b04e735baa1b60db55fa37ef7e271c.png)

As a workaround you can use Source Filters in the Index Pattern but it would be good to know if there's a way to revert back to the previous behaviour. I also can't see anything obvious about this change in behaviour in the release notes for either ES or Kibana.

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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-unused-fields-in-kibana-discover/239058/4 "2020-07-20T05:45:32Z")

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this was a bug in 7.8.0 and has been fixed in 7.8.1

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/69545>
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> Kibana version: 7.8 - master
> Elasticsearch version: 7.8 - master
> Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): source
> Describe the bug:
> If...

best,  
Matthias

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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:** [August 17, 2020, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hide-unused-fields-in-kibana-discover/239058/5 "2020-08-17T05:45:34Z")

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