# Kibana always showing unrelated fields
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345 "2020-07-23T13:32:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@luminance](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luminance)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345/1 "2020-07-23T13:32:40Z")
I am using Elastic Cloud Kibana and I am always seeing fields that are of date type, but have nothing to do with the indexed document. It is a metricbeat index and I am using the default mapping provided by metricbeat.
Any ideas? Is there any config in Kibana to disable this from the view, or am I missing something?
Versions:
- Kibana: 7.8
- Metricbeat: 7.7.1
Example:
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### Author:  [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2020, 9:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345/2 "2020-07-24T21:10:02Z")
Hi @luminance, I'm guessing that you are seeing all of the fields in the metricbeat mapping, even ones which might be empty -- but out of curiosity, where in Kibana 7.8 did this screengrab come from? Are you looking at the individual document view in Discover?
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### Author:  [@luminance](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luminance)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345/3 "2020-07-27T11:49:56Z")
Hey @lukeelmers , both of the views have this, the Discover and the individual document view.
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### Author:  [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345/4 "2020-08-06T19:32:49Z")
Hi, all of these fields were added by the index template that Metricbeat loaded.
You can customize the `fields.yml` file describes the fields, and remove any that don't apply to your usage. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/configuration-template.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/configuration-template.html)
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### Author:  [@luminance](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luminance)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345/5 "2020-08-07T09:40:34Z")
HI @tsullivan, that is not the case. There are ~1000 fields defined in the metricbeat mapping template and that is ok. But only the data type fields are showed on every view.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-always-showing-unrelated-fields/242345/6 "2020-09-04T09:40:42Z")
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