Hello all, I recently was using Elastic to do some testing. I exported the data from my running instance of Elastic using the Save, Share, Generate CSV method. I started up a new instance to continue working at home (the lab I was running it in had to wipe the one I was working on) but when I try…

Yeah. There's nothing OOTB to do this. You can use also logstash. I'd probably use instead a json format than CSV.

Exporting and importing Elastic data

Daniel_Lupisella (Daniel Lupisella) April 5, 2020, 1:56am 2

So, since no one could answer me, I did my own digging. You can't simply export CSV and reupload it. Those fields are generated when you upload data. I ended up using elasticdump (great tool) to export my data and re-import it.

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Exporting and importing Elastic data

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