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Time series index settings
editTime series index settings
editThis 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.
Backing indices in a time series data stream (TSDS) support the following index settings.
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index.mode
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[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.
(Static, string) Mode for the index.
Valid values are
time_series
andnull
(no mode). Defaults tonull
.
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index.time_series.start_time
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[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.
(Static, string) Earliest
@timestamp
value (inclusive) accepted by the index. Only indices with anindex.mode
oftime_series
support this setting. For more information, refer to Time-bound indices.
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index.time_series.end_time
-
[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.
(Dynamic, string) Latest
@timestamp
value (exclusive) accepted by the index. Only indices with anindex.mode
oftime_series
support this setting. For more information, refer to Time-bound indices.
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index.look_ahead_time
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[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.
(Static, time units)
Interval used to calculate the
index.time_series.end_time
for a TSDS’s write index. Defaults to2h
(2 hours). Accepts1m
(one minute) to7d
(seven days). Only indices with anindex.mode
oftime_series
support this setting. For more information, refer to Look-ahead time. Additionally this setting can not be less thantime_series.poll_interval
cluster setting. -
index.routing_path
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[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.
(Static, string or array of strings) Plain
keyword
fields used to route documents in a TSDS to index shards. Supports wildcards (*
). Only indices with anindex.mode
oftime_series
support this setting. Defaults to the list of dimension fields with atime_series_dimension
value oftrue
defined in your component templates. For more information, refer to Dimension-based routing.
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index.mapping.dimension_fields.limit
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[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.
(Dynamic, integer)
Maximum number of time series dimensions for the
index. Defaults to
16
.