---
title: "labeldrop | Grafana Enterprise Logs documentation"
description: "The 'labeldrop' Promtail pipeline stage."
---

> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# labeldrop

> Caution
> 
> Promtail has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through February 28, 2026. Promtail will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on March 2, 2026. You can find migration resources [here](/docs/alloy/latest/set-up/migrate/from-promtail/).

The labeldrop stage is an action stage that drops labels from the label set that is sent to Loki with the log entry.

## Schema

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```yaml
labeldrop:
  - [<string>]
  ...
```

### Examples

For the given pipeline:

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```yaml
- replace:
    expression: "(.*)"
    replace: "pod_name:{{ .kubernetes_pod_name }} {{ .Value }}"
- labeldrop:
    - kubernetes_pod_name
```

Given the following log line:

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```none
log message\n
```

The first stage would append the value of the`kubernetes_pod_name` label into the beginning of the log line. The labeldrop stage would drop the label from being sent to Loki, and it would now be part of the log line instead.