# Best approach to creating mapping in elasticsearch/logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-approach-to-creating-mapping-in-elasticsearch-logstash/198156>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 5, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-approach-to-creating-mapping-in-elasticsearch-logstash/198156 "2019-09-05T05:58:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mdhl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mdhl/32/53332_2.png) [@mdhl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mdhl)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-approach-to-creating-mapping-in-elasticsearch-logstash/198156/1 "2019-09-05T05:58:08Z")

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Hello everyone,

I am new to ELK stack. Currently in the processing of deploying POC for migrating our small splunk deployment to ELK. One of the problem I am having is trying to create mapping in elasticsearch.

Currently all the logs are saved in syslog server with application specific filenames. So, logs are sent as filebeat -\> logstash -\> elasticsearch -\> And getting dashboard in kibana.

I am creating multiple pipelines specific to application in logstash, parsing the fields and saving to elasticsearch as appname-\*$(mm-dd-yyyy) indices.

Now by default, the fields do not get mapped correctly. So do I just use GET /\<index\_name\>/\_mapping. Copy the output and change and save as new template in logstash or is there any better way to do it ?

Appreciate your help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-approach-to-creating-mapping-in-elasticsearch-logstash/198156/2 "2019-10-03T05:58:14Z")

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