# Why is my document result embedded in "doc" field when importing via Logstash to Elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-document-result-embedded-in-doc-field-when-importing-via-logstash-to-elasticsearch/212827
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 23, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-document-result-embedded-in-doc-field-when-importing-via-logstash-to-elasticsearch/212827 "2019-12-23T09:59:29Z")
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### Author:  [@michalz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michalz)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-document-result-embedded-in-doc-field-when-importing-via-logstash-to-elasticsearch/212827/1 "2019-12-23T09:59:29Z")
Hi, I created a pipeline in logstash, and and an index in elasticsearch. I am importing data from couch db. Yet the documents I retrieve are wrapped in an additional field "doc" (within "\_source" that I don't want):
"hits" : [
{
"\_index" : "my\_index",
"\_type" : "\_doc",
"\_id" : "some id",
"\_score" : 1.0,
"\_source" : {
"doc" : {
"x":"some value",
//other fields and values
}
}
}
}
]
How is this "doc" even inserted into my\_index if it is not defined there?
This is the beginning of my index mapping definition:
{
"wsa\_profiles\_db\_index" : {
"aliases" : { },
"mappings" : {
"dynamic" : "false",
"properties" : {
"x" : {
"properties" : {
"x1" : {
//and it continues
My output elasticsearch plugin in logstash is as follows:
elasticsearch {
hosts =\> ["elasticsearch:9200"]
index =\> "my\_index"
document\_id =\> "%{[@metadata][\_id]}"
action =\> "update"
doc\_as\_upsert =\> "true"
}
In the filter{} clause I only remove fields so I do not add any "doc" field.
And in couchdb I do not embed anything into this "doc " field.
How to get rid of "doc"-embedding?
Could you please help? I am new to ELK. I would greatly appreciate that 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-my-document-result-embedded-in-doc-field-when-importing-via-logstash-to-elasticsearch/212827/2 "2020-01-20T10:05:17Z")
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