Does Filebeat plan to support Data Streams, and if so, what is the expected development timeline? Per docs, Prior to Elasticsearch 7.9, you’d typically use an index alias with a write index to manage time series data. Data streams replace this functionality, require less maintenance, and automati…

From 8.0 all Beats send events to data streams. If you want to use data streams in 7.17, you can edit the index template to add "data_stream": {} and load it manually. Then disable ILM and set output.elasticsearch.index to the name of the data stream.

Does Filebeat plan to support Data Streams?

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brsolomon (Brad Solomon) February 10, 2022, 2:24pm 3

To be clear do you mean a PUT /_template/<index-template> where the request body includes the entire existing index template plus data_stream: {} added? Or does PUT /_template/<index-template> support a partial-update (PATCH) where I can just add that single field?

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Does Filebeat plan to support Data Streams?

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