# "processor \[remove\] doesn't support one or more provided configuration parameters \[ignore\_missing\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/processor-remove-doesnt-support-one-or-more-provided-configuration-parameters-ignore-missing/147653>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/processor-remove-doesnt-support-one-or-more-provided-configuration-parameters-ignore-missing/147653 "2018-09-07T05:29:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![guanghaofan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/guanghaofan/32/31153_2.png) [@guanghaofan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guanghaofan)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/processor-remove-doesnt-support-one-or-more-provided-configuration-parameters-ignore-missing/147653/1 "2018-09-07T05:29:18Z")

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I'm studying the ingest node and just write a simple pipeline,

```
PUT _ingest/pipeline/my-lab1
{
    "description": "to parse the filebeat message",
    "version": 101, 
    "processors": [
      {
        "kv": {
            "field": "message",
            "field_split": ",",
            "value_split": "="
        }
      },
      {
      "rename": {
        "field": "foo",
        "target_field": "foobar",
        "ignore_missing": false
        }
      },
      {
      "remove": {
        "field": "foo",
        "ignore_missing": false
        }
      },
      {
        "date_index_name": {
          "field" : "lot_start_time",
          "index_name_prefix": "tester-data-",
          "date_rounding" : "M"
        }

      }
    ]
}

```

But this return the error:

```
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "parse_exception",
        "reason": "processor [remove] doesn't support one or more provided configuration parameters [ignore_missing]",
        "header": {
          "processor_type": "remove"
        }
      }
    ],
    "type": "parse_exception",
    "reason": "processor [remove] doesn't support one or more provided configuration parameters [ignore_missing]",
    "header": {
      "processor_type": "remove"
    }
  },
  "status": 400
}

```

But the doc says, it does support this option, who can help to explain why the error?

## Remove Processor[edit](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/edit/6.4/docs/reference/ingest/ingest-node.asciidoc)

Removes existing fields. If one field doesn’t exist, an exception will be thrown.

**Table 45. Remove Options**

| Name | Required | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `field` | yes | - | Fields to be removed |
| `ignore_missing` | no | `false` | If `true` and `field` does not exist or is `null` , the processor quietly exits without modifying the document |

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 5:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/processor-remove-doesnt-support-one-or-more-provided-configuration-parameters-ignore-missing/147653/2 "2018-09-07T05:40:23Z")

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Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? If I look at the documentation for various versions it looks like this parameter was introduced in Elasticsearch 6.4.

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**Author:** ![guanghaofan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/guanghaofan/32/31153_2.png) [@guanghaofan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guanghaofan)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/processor-remove-doesnt-support-one-or-more-provided-configuration-parameters-ignore-missing/147653/3 "2018-09-07T05:44:59Z")

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ok, my es version is 6.3 and I just noticed it does not support this option! thanks.

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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:** [October 5, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/processor-remove-doesnt-support-one-or-more-provided-configuration-parameters-ignore-missing/147653/4 "2018-10-05T05:45:16Z")

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