# New cluster, lots of unused fields in filebeat-\*

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-cluster-lots-of-unused-fields-in-filebeat/242080
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-cluster-lots-of-unused-fields-in-filebeat/242080 "2020-07-21T18:02:01Z")
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### Author: ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-cluster-lots-of-unused-fields-in-filebeat/242080/1 "2020-07-21T18:02:01Z")

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Hello,

Just started a trial of an Elastic Cloud 7.8.0 cluster on GCP. Enabled the system module in Filebeat and noticed a huge amount of unused fields? Is there a way to make Kibana Discover only show fields whih are actually used?

Small subset of such fields I do not need:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/0/50fee1cc437abb7e050a61c3d9d7eed39efcb45a.png)

Grtz

Willem

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-cluster-lots-of-unused-fields-in-filebeat/242080/2 "2020-07-22T23:33:58Z")

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There's not at the moment. I would suggest you raise a feature request on GitHub if you'd like to see something that allows it 🙂

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### Author: ![willemdh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willemdh/32/16922_2.png) [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-cluster-lots-of-unused-fields-in-filebeat/242080/3 "2020-08-03T15:22:23Z")

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@warkolm See [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/74096](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/74096)

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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: [August 31, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-cluster-lots-of-unused-fields-in-filebeat/242080/4 "2020-08-31T15:22:23Z")

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