Date in index name using sense

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

How can I create a date based index using sense?

Here is what I usually do:

PUT /member_history/
{
"mappings": {
"ats_member_history": {
"dynamic_templates": [
{ "notanalyzed": {
"match": "*",
"match_mapping_type": "string",
"mapping": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
}
}
}
]
}
}
}

I tried this, but I get naming exception:

PUT /member_history-*/
{
.......

And this definitely doesn't work:

PUT /member_history-[YYYY.MM.dd]/
{
......

2

When something like Logstash does it, it passes in the actual date. You need to do the same, it can't figure it out automatically.

It might be a worthy FR though!

3

When I do this, my index keeps getting renamed to logstash-YYYY.MM.dd (today that would be 2016.05.03).
I am at least able to get raw fields.

My JSON template
> {
> "template": "member_type_history_template",
> "mappings": {
> "string_fields": {
> "match": "*",
> "match_mapping_type": "string",
> "mapping": {
> "type": "string",
> "index": "not_analyzed"
> }
> }
> }
> }

My logstash output:

output{

    elasticsearch {
            #index=>"member_type_history-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
            hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
            template => "/home/ubuntu/template/member_type_history_template.json"
            template_name => "member_type_history_template"
            template_overwrite => true

    }

stdout { codec => json }

}

4

I think I am going crazy.
The above mapping isnt working anymore.

5

LS translates %{+YYYY.MM.dd} into an actual date before it passes it to ES, that's why.