Dynamic index creation

[Alex_Salgado-Elastic (Alex Salgado)]

@siakc

From what I understand ES tries to create index by some rules from incoming logs (which I think we call documents).
Now I have too many fields in my docs which ES creates index for. What I need is to stop it from including each new field it sees into index.
I could create and index template and somehow tell ES to only include the fields that are in that template.
Am I seeing it from the right angle and is that what I want to do sane and valid? If so how can I achieve it?

Please see if this helps to clarify: How to index only some of the fields of the entire document? - #9 by stephenb