How do you remove (or not send) metadata from filebeat to logstash?

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You can do it with processors (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/drop-fields.html). Also you can comment out the add_host_metadata (see below) option.

processors:
  - drop_fields:
      fields: ["ecs.version", "agent.version", "agent.type", "agent.id", "agent.hostname", "input.type"]

  # - add_host_metadata: ~
  # - add_cloud_metadata: ~