Entity-Centric Indexing - reliability and performance

[Mark_Harwood]

@TimWard

it doesn't appear to have is any answer/workaround

I sincerely hope this isn't how it's done:

Creation and update timestamps for each doc?

You could try to create an ingest pipeline for setting the created and updated timestamps, in a pipeline you can both add new document fields and modify old ones. Ref: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/put-pipeline-api.html You can create fairly complex scripts using the painless scripting language inside such pipelines. Here's an example of a pipeline we use at my company for setting the processing time on our documents: { "description" : "Sets the document process…