How to add custom document type to Elasticsearch indexing?

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Any idea how can I add the document_type => "athena" to my index (stage-athena)? I am using Kibana dev-tool UI by the way.

PUT /stage-athena/athena didn't work!

Elasticsearch queries:

PUT /stage-athena/
PUT /stage-athena/_mapping
{
  "properties" : {
    "@timestamp" : {
      "type" : "date"
    },
    "@version" : {
      "type" : "text",
      "fields" : {
        "keyword" : {
          "type" : "keyword",
          "ignore_above" : 256
        }
      }
    },
    "customer_id" : {
      "type" : "text",
      "fields" : {
        "keyword" : {
          "type" : "keyword",
          "ignore_above" : 256
        }
      }
    },
    "farm_id" : {
      "type" : "text",
      "fields" : {
        "keyword" : {
          "type" : "keyword",
          "ignore_above" : 256
        }
      }
    },
    "machine_id" : {
      "type" : "text",
      "fields" : {
        "keyword" : {
          "type" : "keyword",
          "ignore_above" : 256
        }
      }
    },
    "op_date" : {
      "type" : "text",
      "fields" : {
        "keyword" : {
          "type" : "keyword",
          "ignore_above" : 256
        }
      }
    },
    "phase_id" : {
      "type" : "text",
      "fields" : {
        "keyword" : {
          "type" : "keyword",
          "ignore_above" : 256
        }
      }
    },
    "rows_captured" : {
      "type" : "long"
    },
    "type" : {
      "type" : "text",
      "fields" : {
        "keyword" : {
          "type" : "keyword",
          "ignore_above" : 256
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
2

I guess you're using 7.x. From this version you should not use any specific type anymore. Behind the scene the type we are using is _doc. It's better to keep this default value.

In 8.x the type will be completely gone.

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3

Yes, _doc is the default document type. I am curious to know if it is useful to have different doucment types in an index?

4

It's not and it's forbidden in 7.x anyway.

5

Yes I'm using Elasticsearch 7.2, thanks for your feedback.

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