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How to Use fields to remove all auto generated fields

markthompson
Builder

Hello,
Basically, we want to get the rid of the system fields except _time , but leave the ones it picks up from our event, for example, get rid of date_mday, date_month etc. And keep the custom ones. is there any easy way to do this?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Create a macro called nofields or something that consists of fields - date_* or whatever you like and then add it to all of your searches like this:

... | `nofields`
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sk314
Builder

what do you mean get rid?

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