diff --git a/elastic/logs/templates/composable/logs-k8-application.log.json b/elastic/logs/templates/composable/logs-k8-application.log.json
index 3a35be45..4d358075 100644
--- a/elastic/logs/templates/composable/logs-k8-application.log.json
+++ b/elastic/logs/templates/composable/logs-k8-application.log.json
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
   "template": {
     "settings": {
       "index": {
-        "codec": "best_compression",
         "mapping": {
           "total_fields": {
             "limit": "10000"