# How to delete beat.name field?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-beat-name-field/74626>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 10, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-beat-name-field/74626 "2017-02-10T09:29:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![ywelsch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ywelsch/32/7751_2.png) [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-beat-name-field/74626/2 "2017-02-10T09:50:21Z")

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Have you checked that the newly indexed documents still contain the `beat.name` field? Existing indexed documents will still carry that field and you cannot remove an existing field from the mappings.

Maybe also related to:

> [@Using the Remove processor for ingest node](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-the-remove-processor-for-ingest-node/56500):
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> Hi, I am trying to remove some fields from the document using the REMOVE processor in the pipeline. I tried: remove { "field"=\>"a", "field"=\>"b", "field"=\>"c", "field"=\>"d", "field"=\>"e", "ignore\_failure" : true } And: remove { "field"=\>"a", "ignore\_failure" : true }, remove { "field"=\>"b", "ignore\_failure" : true }, remove { "field"=\>"c", "ignore\_failure" : true }, remove { "field"=\>"d", "ignore\_failure" : true }, remove { "field"=\>"e", "ignore\_failure" : true } B…

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