Field references sometimes resolved and sometimes not

[cawoodm (Marc)]

Elasticsearch + LogStash 6.5 / FileBeat 6.6 / Windows Server

In FileBeat we define the fields "source", "server" and "system" and add them together in Logstash to a field logfile according to the template %{[fields][source]}-%{[fields][server]}-%{[fields][system]}.

mutate {
    add_field => {
        "server" => "%{[fields][server]}"
        "logfile" => "%{[fields][source]}-%{[fields][server]}-%{[fields][system]}"
    }
}

This used to work fine but lately we keep getting (sporadic) error messages and the field often/sometimes being set to a combination of the processed and unprocessed template.

[2019-03-01T14:24:18,518][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Could not index event to Elasticsearch. {:status=>400, :action=>["index", {:_id=>"access-app02-prod_2019-03-01T13:24:07.000Z_337202708,access-app02-prod,%{[fields][source]}-%{[fields][server]}-%{[fields][system]}2019-03-01T13:24:07.000Z%{offset}", :_index=>"access-prod,%{[fields][system]}", :_type=>"_doc", :_routing=>nil}, #LogStash::Event:0x4d265dfc], :response=>{"index"=>{"_index"=>"access-prod,%{[fields][system]}", "_type"=>"_doc", "_id"=>"access-app02-prod_2019-03-01T13:24:07.000Z_337202708,access-app02-prod,%{[fields][source]}-%{[fields][server]}-%{[fields][system]}2019-03-01T13:24:07.000Z%{offset}", "status"=>400, "error"=>{"type"=>"invalid_index_name_exception", "reason"=>"Invalid index name [access-prod,%{[fields][system]}], must not contain the following characters [ , ", *, \, <, |, ,, >, /, ?]", "index_uuid"=>"na", "index"=>"access-prod,%{[fields][system]}"}}}}

I feel like there has been some change of late in how field templates %{}are handled. In particular we seem to have no issues with %{field} but more with %[field][subfield].

[cawoodm (Marc)]

This issue only goes away if we stop setting document_id in the elasticsearch output. Something is seriously amiss with either ES or LS.