diff --git a/salt/elasticsearch/files/ingest/filterlog b/salt/elasticsearch/files/ingest/filterlog
index d7bda9539..206e487da 100644
--- a/salt/elasticsearch/files/ingest/filterlog
+++ b/salt/elasticsearch/files/ingest/filterlog
@@ -55,6 +55,5 @@
      { "set":         { "field": "module",        "value": "pfsense", "override": true           } },
      { "set":         { "field": "dataset",        "value": "firewall", "override": true           } },
      { "remove":      { "field": ["real_message", "ip_sub_msg", "firewall.sub_message"],     "ignore_failure": true                                                                  } },
-     { "append":      { "field": "tags", "value": ["pfsense"]                                   } }
   ]
 }