# How to remove document I logstash pipilnie that has no usefull fields

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**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 25, 2020, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-document-i-logstash-pipilnie-that-has-no-usefull-fields/253243 "2020-10-25T17:58:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-document-i-logstash-pipilnie-that-has-no-usefull-fields/253243/4 "2020-10-26T22:28:54Z")

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In ruby you would call event.cancel to delete an entire event. There is an example [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-exclude-separator-lines-in-logs/175071/2).

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