I am trying to get scripted fields in Kibana to work.
I have two fields in my documents, customer and site
I'd like to create a new scripted field called friendly_name which is customer+" "+site
I've tried
return doc["customer"].value + " "+doc["site"].value
and it doesn't yield any results.
I've even tried just return 1 to see if I can get anything to return.
How can I get this to work?
Scripted fields work with doc_values only and I am guessing that, since this doesn't work for you, your customer and site field are text fields.
From https://www.elastic.co/blog/using-painless-kibana-scripted-fields:
Both Painless and Lucene expressions operate on fields stored in doc_values. So for string data, you will need to have the string to be stored in data type keyword.
So, you either define your two fields to be keyword or you add a subfield to them and in your scrip you use customer.keyword and site.keyword. And the changed mapping should be:
"customer": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
}
Related
I'm still fairly new to the Elastic Stack and I'm still not seeing the entire picture from what I'm reading on this topic.
Let's say I'm using the latest versions of Filebeat or Metricbeat for example, and pushing that data to Logstash output, (which is then configured to push to ES). I want an "out of the box" field from one of these beats to have its field type changed (example: change beat.hostname from it's current default "text" type to "keyword"), what is the best place/practice for configuring this? This kind of change is something I would want consistent across multiple hosts running the same Beat.
I wouldn't change any existing fields since Kibana is building a lot of visualizations, dashboards, SIEM,... on the exptected fields + data types.
Instead extend (add, don't change) the default mapping if needed. On top of the default index template, you can add your own and they will be merged. Adding more fields will require some more disk space (and probably memory when loading), but it should be manageable and avoids a lot of drawbacks of other approaches.
Agreed with #xeraa. It is not advised to change the default template since that field might be used in any default visualizations.
Create a new template, you can have multiple templates for the same index pattern. All the mappings will be merged.The order of the merging can be controlled using the order parameter, with lower order being applied first, and higher orders overriding them.
For your case, probably create a multi-field for any field that needs to be changed. Eg: As shown here create a new keyword multifield, then you can refer the new field as
fieldname.raw
.
"properties": {
"city": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"raw": {
"type": "keyword"
}
}
}
}
The other answers are correct but I did the below in Dev console to update the message field from text to text & keyword
PUT /index_name/_mapping
{
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "match_only_text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 10000
}
}
}
}
}
can anyone please help on one of the doubts regarding the explaination if ignore above that is there in the elastic document
its mentioned that
Strings longer than the ignore_above setting will not be indexed or stored. For arrays of strings, ignore_above will be applied for each array element separately and string elements longer than ignore_above will not be indexed or stored.
does this means that if i add data longer then the length then it won't allow to post data in ES
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ignore-above.html#ignore-above
Here is what i have tried
my mapping for index testData(i.e index i created) is as follows
using PUT mapping api i added the following mapping
{
"testdata": {
"mappings": {
"testdata": {
"properties": {
"email": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"ignore_above": 256
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
i added data which has length i.e around 150kb(by length around 145149)
it allowed to add the data in the email field , i am also able to search data using post search endpoint, should it allow do to that or am i getting this concept wrong.
Your setting ignore_above: 256 means if the string length is greater than 256 characters then the document is indexed but that field will not be indexed. If the string length is < 256 characters then the document along with the field will be indexed. Example - String length for text "stackoverflow" is 13 characters. Hope this clarifies.
As per your mapping, the ignore_above setting is applied to the email.keyword field.
I solve my problem today ,I can't get agg terms value by xx.keyword. My value length is 315.
if string longer than the ignore_above value , xx.keyword will not work for search. But the value can be saved , you can search the doc by other fields.
My elasticsearch data has a large number of fields that I don't need to search by. But I would like to get aggregations like percentiles, median, count, avg. etc. on these fields.
Is there a way to disable searchability of a field but let it still be aggregatable?
Most of the fields are indexed by default and hence make them searchable. If you want to make a field non-searchable all you have to do is set its index param as false and doc_values to true.
As per elastic documentation:
All fields which support doc values have them enabled by default.
So you need not explicitly set "doc_values": true for such fields.
For e.g.
{
"mappings": {
"_doc": {
"properties": {
"only_agg": {
"type": "keyword",
"index": false
}
}
}
}
}
If you try to search on field only_agg in above example, elastic will throw exception with reason as below:
Cannot search on field [only_agg] since it is not indexed.
yeah take a look at doc_value:
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/doc-values.html
I have mappings created wrongly for an object in elastic search. Is there a way to update the mappings. The mapping has been created wrongly for type of the object(String instead of double).
In general, the mapping for existing fields cannot be updated. There are some exceptions to this rule. For instance:
new properties can be added to Object datatype fields.
new multi-fields can be added to existing fields.
doc_values can be disabled, but not enabled.
the ignore_above parameter can be updated.
Source : https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-put-mapping.html
That's entirely possible, by PUTting the new mapping over the existing one, here are some examples.
Please note, that you will probably need to reindex all your data after you have done this, because I don't think that ES can convert string indexes to double indexes. (what will instead happen is, that you won't find any document when you search in that field)
PUT Mapping API allows you to add/modified datatype in an existing index.
PUT /assets/asset/_mapping
{
"properties": {
"common_attributes.asset_id": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"keyword": {
"type": "keyword",
"doc_values": true,
"normalizer": "lowercase_normalizer"
}
}
},
}
}
After updating the mapping, update the existing documents using bulk Update API.
POST /_bulk
{"update":{"_id":"59519","_type":"asset","_index":"assets"}}
{"doc":{"facility_id":491},"detect_noop":false}
Note - Use 'detect_noop' for detecting noop update.
i need help to correct kibana field. when I try to visualizing the fields, shown me the following warning:
Careful! The field contains Analyzed selected strings. Analyzed
strings are highly unique and can use a lot of memory to visualize.
Values: such as bar will be foo-foo and bar broken into. See Core
Mapping Types for more information on setting esta field Analyzed as
not
Elasticsearch default dynamic mapping is to analyze any string field (break the field into tokens, for instance: aaa_bbb_ccc will be break down into aaa,bbb and ccc).
If you do not want such behavior you must change the mapping settings
before any document was pushed into the index.
You have two options to do that:
Change the mapping for a particular index using mapping API, in a static way or dynamic way (dynamic means that the mapping will be applies also to fields that still does not exist in the index)
You can change the behavior of any index according to a pattern, using the template API
This example shows a template that changes the mapping for any index that starts with "app", applying "not analyze" to any field in any type and make sure "timestamp" is a date (good for cases in with the timestamp is represented as a number of seconds from 1970):
{
"template": "myindciesprefix*",
"mappings": {
"_default_": {
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"strings": {
"match_mapping_type": "string",
"mapping": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
}
}
},
{
"timestamp_field": {
"match": "timestamp",
"mapping": {
"type": "date"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}
Really you dont have any problem is only a message of info, but if you dont want analyzed fields when you build your index in elasticsearch you must indicate that one field is a not analyzed field.