diff --git a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/field_filter.ts b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/field_filter.ts
index 5517011f057188..8c7e48f173031d 100644
--- a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/field_filter.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/field_filter.ts
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export function isFieldFiltered(
   const scriptedOrMissing =
     !filterState.missing ||
     field.type === '_source' ||
+    field.type === 'unknown_selected' ||
     field.scripted ||
     fieldCounts[field.name] > 0;
   const needle = filterState.name ? filterState.name.toLowerCase() : '';
diff --git a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.test.ts b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.test.ts
index 9792e98ba84c7d..68099fb0c8e2a0 100644
--- a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.test.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.test.ts
@@ -217,6 +217,20 @@ describe('group_fields', function () {
     ]);
   });
 
+  it('should filter fields by a given name', function () {
+    const fieldFilterState = { ...getDefaultFieldFilter(), ...{ name: 'curr' } };
+
+    const actual1 = groupFields(
+      fields as IndexPatternField[],
+      ['customer_birth_date', 'currency', 'unknown'],
+      5,
+      fieldCounts,
+      fieldFilterState,
+      false
+    );
+    expect(actual1.selected.map((field) => field.name)).toEqual(['currency']);
+  });
+
   it('excludes unmapped fields if showUnmappedFields set to false', function () {
     const fieldFilterState = getDefaultFieldFilter();
     const fieldsWithUnmappedField = [...fields];
diff --git a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.tsx b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.tsx
index eefb96b78aac66..dc6cbcedc80864 100644
--- a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/sidebar/lib/group_fields.tsx
@@ -71,10 +71,18 @@ export function groupFields(
       }
     }
   }
-  // add columns, that are not part of the index pattern, to be removeable
+  // add selected columns, that are not part of the index pattern, to be removeable
   for (const column of columns) {
-    if (!result.selected.find((field) => field.name === column)) {
-      result.selected.push({ name: column, displayName: column } as IndexPatternField);
+    const tmpField = {
+      name: column,
+      displayName: column,
+      type: 'unknown_selected',
+    } as IndexPatternField;
+    if (
+      !result.selected.find((field) => field.name === column) &&
+      isFieldFiltered(tmpField, fieldFilterState, fieldCounts)
+    ) {
+      result.selected.push(tmpField);
     }
   }
   result.selected.sort((a, b) => {