# How to remove beat field and host field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-beat-field-and-host-field/155334>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-beat-field-and-host-field/155334 "2018-11-05T03:18:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![luzhzhsoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@luzhzhsoft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luzhzhsoft)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-beat-field-and-host-field/155334/1 "2018-11-05T03:18:52Z")

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My output contains beat ，host ，@timestamp@metadat filed as default.I want remove beat ,host fields from input.I define processor ,but it not work for beat and host filelds.I do not want to use pipeline ,because I have my own field named host,and this filed will be overwite by filebeat.

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**Author:** ![luzhzhsoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@luzhzhsoft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luzhzhsoft)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-beat-field-and-host-field/155334/2 "2018-11-05T03:20:17Z")

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Es document say only @timestamp and type will not be remove by processor.But it is seems not work for beat ,host fields

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**Author:** ![luzhzhsoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@luzhzhsoft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luzhzhsoft)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-beat-field-and-host-field/155334/3 "2018-11-05T06:03:20Z")

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Well.I use top levle processors ,works fine.My configruation may have some problem.

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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:** [December 3, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-beat-field-and-host-field/155334/4 "2018-12-03T06:05:49Z")

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