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

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-remove-or-not-send-metadata-from-filebeat-to-logstash/201090>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 25, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-remove-or-not-send-metadata-from-filebeat-to-logstash/201090 "2019-09-25T18:38:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![kumarabhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@kumarabhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumarabhi)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-remove-or-not-send-metadata-from-filebeat-to-logstash/201090/2 "2019-09-26T22:32:43Z")

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You can do it with processors ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/drop-fields.html](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: ~
```

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