hi, i use filebeat to send tomcat accesslog to logstash and after that send from logstash to elasticsearch, my data has a field with name logDate, i convert it to string in filebeat and logstash but its type in elasticseach become date. elasticsearch changes this field type depend on first value …

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How to prevent autmatically type conversion in elasticsearch

Vahid_Alizadeh (Vahid Alizadeh) January 14, 2021, 7:19am 3

thank you

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