Document_type is being ignored

docuement_type was deprecated in 5.5 and completely removed in 6.0 because _type is being removed from Elasticsearch.

You can add your own type field (not _type) with fields.

filebeat.prospectors:
- paths:
    - 'E:\someLoc\IISLogs\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\*.log'
  fields_under_root: true
  fields:
    type: iis_log
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