Path parameters
-
Name of the index you wish to create.
Query parameters
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master_timeout string
Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
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timeout string
Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
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wait_for_active_shards number | string
The number of shard copies that must be active before proceeding with the operation. Set to
all
or any positive integer up to the total number of shards in the index (number_of_replicas+1
).
Body
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aliases object
Aliases for the index.
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Additional properties are allowed.
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filter object
Additional properties are allowed.
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index_routing string
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is_hidden boolean
If
true
, the alias is hidden. All indices for the alias must have the sameis_hidden
value. -
is_write_index boolean
If
true
, the index is the write index for the alias. -
routing string
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search_routing string
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mappings object
Additional properties are allowed.
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all_field object
Additional properties are allowed.
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date_detection boolean
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dynamic string
Values are
strict
,runtime
,true
, orfalse
. -
dynamic_date_formats array[string]
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dynamic_templates array[object]
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_field_names object
Additional properties are allowed.
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index_field object
Additional properties are allowed.
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_meta object
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-
Additional properties are allowed.
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-
numeric_detection boolean
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properties object
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_routing object
Additional properties are allowed.
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_size object
Additional properties are allowed.
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_source object
Additional properties are allowed.
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runtime object
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-
Additional properties are allowed.
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fields object
For type
composite
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fetch_fields array[object]
For type
lookup
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format string
A custom format for
date
type runtime fields. -
input_field string
Path to field or array of paths. Some API's support wildcards in the path to select multiple fields.
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target_field string
Path to field or array of paths. Some API's support wildcards in the path to select multiple fields.
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target_index string
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script object
Additional properties are allowed.
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source string
The script source.
-
id string
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params object
Specifies any named parameters that are passed into the script as variables. Use parameters instead of hard-coded values to decrease compile time.
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-
Additional properties are allowed.
-
-
options object
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-
Values are
boolean
,composite
,date
,double
,geo_point
,ip
,keyword
,long
, orlookup
.
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-
-
enabled boolean
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subobjects boolean
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_data_stream_timestamp object
Additional properties are allowed.
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-
Additional properties are allowed.
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-
Additional properties are allowed.
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mode string
routing_path string | array[string]
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soft_deletes object
Additional properties are allowed.
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enabled boolean
Indicates whether soft deletes are enabled on the index.
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retention_lease object
Additional properties are allowed.
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A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
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-
-
sort object
Additional properties are allowed.
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field string | array[string]
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number_of_shards number | string
number_of_replicas number | string
-
number_of_routing_shards number
-
check_on_startup string
Values are
true
,false
, orchecksum
. -
codec string
routing_partition_size number | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
hidden boolean | string
-
auto_expand_replicas string
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merge object
Additional properties are allowed.
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scheduler object
Additional properties are allowed.
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max_thread_count number | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
max_merge_count number | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
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search object
Additional properties are allowed.
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idle object
Additional properties are allowed.
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after string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
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slowlog object
Additional properties are allowed.
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level string
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source number
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reformat boolean
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threshold object
Additional properties are allowed.
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query object
Additional properties are allowed.
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warn string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
info string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
debug string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
trace string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
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fetch object
Additional properties are allowed.
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warn string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
info string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
debug string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
trace string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
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-
-
-
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refresh_interval string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
max_result_window number
-
max_inner_result_window number
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max_rescore_window number
-
max_docvalue_fields_search number
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max_script_fields number
-
max_ngram_diff number
-
max_shingle_diff number
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blocks object
Additional properties are allowed.
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read_only boolean | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
read_only_allow_delete boolean | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
read boolean | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
write boolean | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
metadata boolean | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
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max_refresh_listeners number
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analyze object
Additional properties are allowed.
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max_token_count number | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
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highlight object
Additional properties are allowed.
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max_analyzed_offset number
-
-
max_terms_count number
-
max_regex_length number
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routing object
Additional properties are allowed.
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allocation object
Additional properties are allowed.
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enable string
Values are
all
,primaries
,new_primaries
, ornone
. -
include object
Additional properties are allowed.
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_tier_preference string
-
_id string
-
-
initial_recovery object
Additional properties are allowed.
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_id string
-
-
disk object
Additional properties are allowed.
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threshold_enabled boolean | string
-
-
rebalance object
Additional properties are allowed.
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-
Values are
all
,primaries
,replicas
, ornone
.
-
-
-
gc_deletes string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
default_pipeline string
-
final_pipeline string
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lifecycle object
Additional properties are allowed.
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name string
indexing_complete boolean | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
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origination_date number
If specified, this is the timestamp used to calculate the index age for its phase transitions. Use this setting if you create a new index that contains old data and want to use the original creation date to calculate the index age. Specified as a Unix epoch value in milliseconds.
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parse_origination_date boolean
Set to true to parse the origination date from the index name. This origination date is used to calculate the index age for its phase transitions. The index name must match the pattern .*-{date_format}-\d+, where the date_format is yyyy.MM.dd and the trailing digits are optional. An index that was rolled over would normally match the full format, for example logs-2016.10.31-000002). If the index name doesn’t match the pattern, index creation fails.
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step object
Additional properties are allowed.
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wait_time_threshold string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
-
-
rollover_alias string
The index alias to update when the index rolls over. Specify when using a policy that contains a rollover action. When the index rolls over, the alias is updated to reflect that the index is no longer the write index. For more information about rolling indices, see Rollover.
-
-
provided_name string
creation_date number | string
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
One of: Time unit for milliseconds
creation_date_string string | number
A date and time, either as a string whose format can depend on the context (defaulting to ISO 8601), or a number of milliseconds since the Epoch. Elasticsearch accepts both as input, but will generally output a string representation.
One of: Time unit for milliseconds
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uuid string
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version object
Additional properties are allowed.
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created string
-
created_string string
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verified_before_close boolean | string
format string | number
-
max_slices_per_scroll number
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translog object
Additional properties are allowed.
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sync_interval string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
durability string
Values are
request
,REQUEST
,async
, orASYNC
. flush_threshold_size number | string
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retention object
Additional properties are allowed.
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-
query_string object
Additional properties are allowed.
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lenient boolean | string Required
Some APIs will return values such as numbers also as a string (notably epoch timestamps). This behavior is used to capture this behavior while keeping the semantics of the field type.
Depending on the target language, code generators can keep the union or remove it and leniently parse strings to the target type.
priority number | string
-
top_metrics_max_size number
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analysis object
Additional properties are allowed.
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analyzer object
-
char_filter object
-
filter object
-
normalizer object
-
tokenizer object
-
-
Additional properties are allowed.
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time_series object
Additional properties are allowed.
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start_time string | number
A date and time, either as a string whose format can depend on the context (defaulting to ISO 8601), or a number of milliseconds since the Epoch. Elasticsearch accepts both as input, but will generally output a string representation.
One of: Time unit for milliseconds
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queries object
Additional properties are allowed.
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similarity object
Configure custom similarity settings to customize how search results are scored.
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mapping object
Additional properties are allowed.
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coerce boolean
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total_fields object
Additional properties are allowed.
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limit number
The maximum number of fields in an index. Field and object mappings, as well as field aliases count towards this limit. The limit is in place to prevent mappings and searches from becoming too large. Higher values can lead to performance degradations and memory issues, especially in clusters with a high load or few resources.
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ignore_dynamic_beyond_limit boolean
This setting determines what happens when a dynamically mapped field would exceed the total fields limit. When set to false (the default), the index request of the document that tries to add a dynamic field to the mapping will fail with the message Limit of total fields [X] has been exceeded. When set to true, the index request will not fail. Instead, fields that would exceed the limit are not added to the mapping, similar to dynamic: false. The fields that were not added to the mapping will be added to the _ignored field.
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depth object
Additional properties are allowed.
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limit number
The maximum depth for a field, which is measured as the number of inner objects. For instance, if all fields are defined at the root object level, then the depth is 1. If there is one object mapping, then the depth is 2, etc.
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nested_fields object
Additional properties are allowed.
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limit number
The maximum number of distinct nested mappings in an index. The nested type should only be used in special cases, when arrays of objects need to be queried independently of each other. To safeguard against poorly designed mappings, this setting limits the number of unique nested types per index.
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nested_objects object
Additional properties are allowed.
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limit number
The maximum number of nested JSON objects that a single document can contain across all nested types. This limit helps to prevent out of memory errors when a document contains too many nested objects.
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field_name_length object
Additional properties are allowed.
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limit number
Setting for the maximum length of a field name. This setting isn’t really something that addresses mappings explosion but might still be useful if you want to limit the field length. It usually shouldn’t be necessary to set this setting. The default is okay unless a user starts to add a huge number of fields with really long names. Default is
Long.MAX_VALUE
(no limit).
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dimension_fields object
Additional properties are allowed.
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limit number
[preview] This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.
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ignore_malformed boolean
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-
indexing.slowlog object
Additional properties are allowed.
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level string
-
source number
-
reformat boolean
-
threshold object
Additional properties are allowed.
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index object
Additional properties are allowed.
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warn string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
info string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
debug string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value. -
trace string
A duration. Units can be
nanos
,micros
,ms
(milliseconds),s
(seconds),m
(minutes),h
(hours) andd
(days). Also accepts "0" without a unit and "-1" to indicate an unspecified value.
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indexing_pressure object
Additional properties are allowed.
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Additional properties are allowed.
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limit number
Number of outstanding bytes that may be consumed by indexing requests. When this limit is reached or exceeded, the node will reject new coordinating and primary operations. When replica operations consume 1.5x this limit, the node will reject new replica operations. Defaults to 10% of the heap.
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store object
Additional properties are allowed.
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allow_mmap boolean
You can restrict the use of the mmapfs and the related hybridfs store type via the setting node.store.allow_mmap. This is a boolean setting indicating whether or not memory-mapping is allowed. The default is to allow it. This setting is useful, for example, if you are in an environment where you can not control the ability to create a lot of memory maps so you need disable the ability to use memory-mapping.
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curl \
-X PUT http://api.example.com/{index} \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '"{\n \"settings\": {\n \"number_of_shards\": 3,\n \"number_of_replicas\": 2\n }\n}"'
{
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 3,
"number_of_replicas": 2
}
}
{
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 1
},
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"field1": { "type": "text" }
}
}
}
{
"index": "string",
"shards_acknowledged": true,
"acknowledged": true
}