# Confusions around ELK6 types

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/confusions-around-elk6-types/124008>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/confusions-around-elk6-types/124008 "2018-03-14T23:37:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![gfigoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gfigoni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gfigoni)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/confusions-around-elk6-types/124008/4 "2018-03-16T06:10:51Z")

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Same here : I had to redo all my template mappings to change type from "\_doc" to "doc" because of Logstash behavior.

Note that this has already been reported here a month ago : [Default value of the type field](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/default-value-of-the-type-field/119280/2)

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