# How to remove standard fields from Kibana search results?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 21, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234 "2015-11-21T20:31:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@konste](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/konste)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/1 "2015-11-21T20:31:09Z")
Every Kibana discovery search returns actual document fields plus some internal Elasticsearch fields, such as \_id, \_index, \_score, \_type. The question is how to prevent those internal fields from showing up in results? They only obscure important fields in my case .
I'm looking for a way to configure Kibana 4 to not even request those fields from Elastic or if it is not possible, then hide them in discovery search results table.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
Konstantin
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/2 "2015-11-22T23:33:30Z")
I don't think you can, or at least, I cannot find anything.
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### Author:  [@yahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yahoo)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/3 "2016-02-01T21:16:50Z")
@konste @warkolm
how about the kibana, advanced setting , metaFields .
It states:
> Fields that exist outside of \_source to merge into our document when displaying it
> \_source, \_id, \_type, \_index, \_score
can't we just edit them out and achieve what @konste asked for?
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### Author:  [@stormpython](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stormpython)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/4 "2016-02-01T23:44:51Z")
yahoo is correct. simply go to Advanced Settings, under metafields, remove \_id, \_type, \_index, and \_score, and \_source if you like to remove those from the Discover table view.
Then save when done.
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### Author:  [@konste](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/konste)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/5 "2016-02-02T01:33:10Z")
As a matter of fact I have discovered the possibility to remove unneeded fields from metaFields and it even worked for me... for some time. I have not reported it back to this thread, because literally next day after I did exactly this change \_id, \_index, \_score and \_type **came back** to my Discover output and stay there since then!
While writing that I decided to do a simple experiment - reset metaFields setting to default (nothing changed in Discover output) and then remove unneeded fields again. Now they disappeared from Discover output! I wonder how long this effect would last.
Feels like there is obscure bug in Kibana which causes it to use default value of this field regardless of configuration after some event. What event that is - still a mystery.
I will report back if the change would stick (or not).
Thank you!
Konstantin
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### Author:  [@yahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yahoo)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/6 "2016-02-02T15:48:15Z")
Hi @konste
I had the same experience. They disappear then they appear again.
Currently the advance setting for Meta Fields is empty. However, these items still appear in the discover panel.
I tried restarting kibana, and deleted the index from kibana and reload again.
They are still there!
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### Author:  [@konste](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/konste)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/7 "2016-02-02T16:10:01Z")
But if you reset metaFields to default and then clear it again - they disappear! I think it is worth opening a bug.
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### Author:  [@yahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yahoo)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/8 "2016-02-02T18:46:03Z")
yes they disappear for a shortwhile. something bring them back!
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### Author:  [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/9 "2016-02-04T06:23:23Z")
created [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6104](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6104)
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### Author:  [@konste](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/konste)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/10 "2016-02-04T18:08:53Z")
Ok, we have new recipe from Rashid's answer - reset MetaFields to default, edit them again to desired state, then **refresh index pattern**. It may make the changes to stick. I just did it and keep an eye on it.
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### Author:  [@konste](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/konste)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/11 "2016-02-05T05:10:03Z")
Nope, it did not work. meta fields returned after less than a day ☹
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### Author:  [@joedissmeyer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joedissmeyer)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/12 "2016-09-08T00:27:00Z")
I also experience the same issue. Refreshing the index pattern does not appear to do anything either. I'll post to the #6104 issue as well.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-remove-standard-fields-from-kibana-search-results/35234/13 "2017-07-06T13:39:23Z")