# How to remove Metricbeat default fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [December 5, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026 "2016-12-05T10:54:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![sunilmchaudhari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sunilmchaudhari/32/9475_2.png) [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026/1 "2016-12-05T10:54:27Z")

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Hi,  
I am using metricbeat for system monitoring.  
However, that gives some default fields beat.hostname, [beat.name](http://beat.name) etc, which I dont want.  
How to remove those?

br,  
Sunil

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026/2 "2016-12-05T15:53:52Z")

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[Processors](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/configuration-processors.html) can remove fields.

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**Author:** ![rherr63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@rherr63](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rherr63)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026/3 "2016-12-12T15:43:27Z")

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Is it possible to remove the 'rtt' field from each of the metrics? If so, how is this accomplished?

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**Author:** ![rherr63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@rherr63](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rherr63)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026/4 "2016-12-12T18:07:27Z")

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Is the format as follows in MetricBeats.yml?  
processors:

- drop\_fields:  
fields: "rtt"

I have tried the above and also ["rtt"] and it still not removing the rtt field and data when viewing data in Kinesis Analytics

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026/5 "2016-12-12T18:24:16Z")

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The field is `metricset.rtt`. So try

```auto
processors:
- drop_fields:
    fields: ['metricset.rtt']

```

or equivalently:

```auto
processors:
- drop_fields.fields: ['metricset.rtt']

```

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**Author:** ![rherr63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@rherr63](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rherr63)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026/6 "2016-12-12T21:14:43Z")

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Awesome, worked great. Thanks!

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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:** [January 9, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-metricbeat-default-fields/68026/7 "2017-01-09T21:14:45Z")

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