How to create my own document_id in logstash?

[elastic_paul (Paul)]

Perfect thanks.

I also had to edit the elasticsearch plugin to accept an HTTP code 409 when using the create command. See my other thread for that one.

Re: "create action does not use _id for request #79"

create action does not use _id for request #79 hxxps://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-elasticsearch/issues/79 This means that I can not use my own deduplication where I manually set the document_id to a given hash. My document_id will not be the same as the _id that is being used and so it won't work with action=>create Have I got that right? EDIT: NO! I did not get this right. It failed because ES returns an HTTP code 409 for the duplicate (correctly) but the plugin fails on th…