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 an…

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

Andrew_Cholakian1 (Andrew Cholakian) October 29, 2018, 7:11pm 2

@dx123 I think what you're looking for is the drop_fields processor in beats.

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