# How to disable \_all field in production mode?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-all-field-in-production-mode/110945>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 9, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-all-field-in-production-mode/110945 "2017-12-09T22:20:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-disable-all-field-in-production-mode/110945/4 "2017-12-21T13:40:08Z")

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I have the same issue. I'm trying to disable `_all` to update to ES 6.1 but i get this error:

```
{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"mapper [_all] enabled is true now encountering false"}
```

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