# Module fields coming from filebeat

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-fields-coming-from-filebeat/154244
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [October 26, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-fields-coming-from-filebeat/154244 "2018-10-26T18:06:58Z")
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### Author: ![grantk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@grantk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grantk)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-fields-coming-from-filebeat/154244/1 "2018-10-26T18:06:58Z")

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I've just configured filebeat to log to ES hosted by elastic. It is working fine but there are hundreds of unused fields i.e. apache, traefik.access._, mysql._.  
It seems the default config points to a modules directory:  
filebeat.config.modules:  
# Glob pattern for configuration loading  
path: ${path.config}/modules.d/\*.yml

In that modules.d directory all files end with \*.disabled.

Is filebeat supposed to be creating all these fields, and is there a way to turn that 'feature' off?

thanks

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### Author: ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-fields-coming-from-filebeat/154244/2 "2018-10-29T19:10:36Z")

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This is something we're still in the design phase of improving. One potential path is the solution proposed here: [https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/7972](https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/7972)

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### Author: ![grantk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@grantk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grantk)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-fields-coming-from-filebeat/154244/3 "2018-10-29T19:46:57Z")

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Thanks for the link. It sounds like having this template with several hundred unused fields generally has a minimal impact on performance?

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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: [November 26, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/module-fields-coming-from-filebeat/154244/4 "2018-11-26T21:46:57Z")

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