# How to mask the Kibana default fields (6.4.2)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-mask-the-kibana-default-fields-6-4-2/184574>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-mask-the-kibana-default-fields-6-4-2/184574 "2019-06-06T11:55:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![premchand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@premchand](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/premchand)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-mask-the-kibana-default-fields-6-4-2/184574/1 "2019-06-06T11:55:29Z")

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![kibana%20snapshot](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/2/121fc0aea368fd5b94154035bf1b9cae0f27c57a.png)

host is a default field from where it is load balanced, can we mask it at GUI level as developers doesn't need that info. developers already have something like hostname.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-mask-the-kibana-default-fields-6-4-2/184574/2 "2019-06-06T13:17:23Z")

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Question moved to #kibana

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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:** [July 4, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-mask-the-kibana-default-fields-6-4-2/184574/3 "2019-07-04T13:17:27Z")

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