# Too many field in metricbeat

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-field-in-metricbeat/242572
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-field-in-metricbeat/242572 "2020-07-24T22:07:45Z")
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### Author: ![tactics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@tactics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tactics)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-field-in-metricbeat/242572/2 "2020-07-26T14:40:34Z")

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I have just posted about this too:  
[https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-template-from-modules/242660](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index-template-from-modules/242660)

Not sure if this creates an issue or not but it would be really nice to know for sure. Got to be a way of only including the used fields from any given module in the index template.

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