# Ignoring a field completely

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignoring-a-field-completely/130916>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 8, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignoring-a-field-completely/130916 "2018-05-08T00:03:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Prathap\_BN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prathap_bn/32/30903_2.png) [@Prathap\_BN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prathap_BN)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignoring-a-field-completely/130916/1 "2018-05-08T00:03:57Z")

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Is there a way in ES 6 to include a detail in Mapping where upon insertion the field is completely ignored by ES meaning it should neither be indexed nor be stored as part of '\_source'

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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:** [May 8, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignoring-a-field-completely/130916/2 "2018-05-08T00:49:44Z")

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Not indexed: yes.  
Not part of source: why do you send it in the 1st place? If you can't filter that from your application, look at ingest feature which will modify the source before it gets actually indexed.

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**Author:** ![Prathap\_BN](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prathap_bn/32/30903_2.png) [@Prathap\_BN](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prathap_BN)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignoring-a-field-completely/130916/3 "2018-05-08T03:19:25Z")

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Thanks.. I had thought there could be some feature like that.. I think best approach for us is to filter it at application level

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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:** [May 8, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignoring-a-field-completely/130916/4 "2018-05-08T06:26:38Z")

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Always better to reduce the network bandwidth usage 🙂

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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:** [June 5, 2018, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ignoring-a-field-completely/130916/5 "2018-06-05T06:26:45Z")

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