# Remove input.type and prospector.type fields that appear in Kibana's hits

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-input-type-and-prospector-type-fields-that-appear-in-kibanas-hits/154361>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 29, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-input-type-and-prospector-type-fields-that-appear-in-kibanas-hits/154361 "2018-10-29T01:57:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![dx123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@dx123](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dx123)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-input-type-and-prospector-type-fields-that-appear-in-kibanas-hits/154361/1 "2018-10-29T01:57:24Z")

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I'm using Filebeat to ingest some files into Logstash for data manipulation and thereafter indexed to Elasticsearch and displayed in Kibana. However I have fields such as input.type and prospector.type that has the "log" value appear in my Kibana hits which I do not want.

I've done some research and found out that they were generated as part of Filebeat. I've followed some of the solutions online, such as setting fields\_under\_root in filebeat.yml to false but to no avail. Anyone here able to help me with this? Thanks!

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/3/f36df4b6b1e068771233590446a6a548547d4abe.png)

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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, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-input-type-and-prospector-type-fields-that-appear-in-kibanas-hits/154361/2 "2018-10-29T19:11:50Z")

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@dx123 I think what you're looking for is the [drop\_fields](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/drop-fields.html) processor in beats.

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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:** [December 3, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-input-type-and-prospector-type-fields-that-appear-in-kibanas-hits/154361/4 "2018-12-03T09:21:40Z")

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