Does match_only_text data type really requires a license on Elastic Cloud?

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Hello,

I'm planning on doing some tests using Elastic cloud and to make it cheaper I would use the Standard tier, I was then checking the difference between the tiers and in the subscription page it says that match_only_text is not available for the Standard tier.

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Which is weird for 2 big reasons:

  • It is available for self-managed deployments with the Basic free license.
  • A lot of ECS fields uses the match_only_text type, if it requires a license then you would not even be able to use Elastic Agent integrations on the Standard tier.

For the self-managed deployment this is how it looks like:

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I'm assuming this is an error, but would like more clarification.

If it indeed requires a license in the Cloud, how does it even work as Elastic Agent will generate fields with this mappings?

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Thanks for reporting @leandrojmp. Much appreciated.

I'm going to check internally and will come back to you.

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